Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are about 300,000 cards on file at the School of Public Health, affording an invaluable mass of data on the external causes of disease. Without the machine it would be almost impossible to use these records...
...White Lilacs," a romance with music, based on the life of Frederic Chopin, has all the failings and few of the fortes of the genre. That is to say, one does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with voices, and was supposed to be played at the tempo originally indicated; the second because the incongruity of seeing Heinrich Heine and Giacomo Meyerbeer cavorting about the stage, not to mention George Sand fainting and a rather picturesque but wholly unconvincing ending...
Baseball spent $32,837.88 and earned $25,869,98. Track spent $60,529.71, earning $13,245.91, while the expenses for the football team were almost $150,000. Receipts from varsity hockey came to $8,538.64, expenses being $15,016.75, and crew spent $45,026.15 with earnings...
This is all pretty depressing. But, on reflection, our sympathies go out more to Mr. Pringle than to Yale. He seems to have been unfortunate in his contacts. We suspect that the typical Yale undergraduate is still almost indistinguishable from the typical Harvard man, or even from the typical Cornell man, and we like them all. We have yet to meet the undergraduate who would tolerate a "prominent" roommate whom he disliked. Doubtless the young Eli of to-day has less ambition to be a Jonathan Edwards than had the undergraduate of two centuries ago; but, after all, the colleges...
Bennett devoted his later years almost exclusively to the Paris edition of the Herald, which had long been the pet of his most lavish whims. He died in 1918 at Beaulieu, France, aged 77.* The Herald was sold to the late Frank Andrew Munsey and was later merged with the New York Tribune...