Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long run whether in the prohibition field or in any other field of government, infinitely more is lost than gained if for the sake of accomplishing immediately a purpose, no matter how desirable, a fundamental principle of good government and sound practice is violated." Such a philosophic dictum might almost have been taken direct from "greatest" Alexander Hamilton himself. And in enunciating it, Mr. Mellon had to employ almost Hamiltonian courage. For he laid down this principle in a letter opposing additional funds for Prohibition, thus opening himself to further attacks from the Triumphant Drys, who rightly suspect...
President Coolidge gave credit largely to the elimination of government extravagance under the budget system, whose history is almost all within the Coolidge era. Forty-three scattered and isolated departments and bureaus were coordinated for unified effort, their expenses checked by meticulous budgeteers and initialed by a prudent chief executive...
...Almost all the "new" acts are shoddy reach-me-downs from former successes. They are not clipped short before they begin to pall. The music is a damp package of the old fireworks. Several of the set tings, notably "The Celebrated Popoff's Porcelains," are direct steals from such past Bat Theatre triumphs as the "Dutch Platter Porcelains...
...major infection in George V's right lung, which almost caused his Death (TIME, Dec. 24) was announced last week to be entirely cured. Thereupon preparations were made to speed His Majesty by motor ambulance down to the Sussex seaside, 65 miles from London's fogs...
...another name, as the evil genius of the Riviera. As a matter of fact the heaviest losers to the Syndicate do seem to have been women. "Once," Vincente Blasco Ibánez has said, "I saw Vagliano win a million francs at a single sit ting." With one franc worth almost four cents, as at present, that would have been...