Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cricket is liked by almost every British citizen, no matter where he lives. It is played with a ball harder than a baseball, with big flat bats, with eleven men on a side, two batters (one at each wicket), a bowler, a wicketkeeper, and an interval of tiffin. The professional members of a team eat in a part of the clubhouse separate from the amateurs' and their names are printed without "Mr." in the lineups...
...Campbell's farms (in Montana) are vast and profitable because he uses machinery almost exclusively for planting, cultivating and harvesting. The Russians want him to put his system to work on 10,000,000 acres of wheat and flax land. His project may lead to the purchase of $100,000,000 worth of U. S. farm machinery. The Russians also want Mr. Campbell to spend three months each year with them. On that invitation he was not determined before he sailed from Manhattan...
...Pennsylvania (William Wallace Atterbury, president) had the biggest, best-integrated, and most strategically located system of the district. It had control of the Wabash and almost half the stock of the Lehigh Valley. Most significantly it was in process of establishing itself in the public mind as the eastern railroad. This it was doing by institutional advertising and by pushing new railroad features, as electrification, air-rail transportation...
Likewise on Fifth Avenue, and just one block from Black, Starr & Frost is the retail store of the Rhode Island silver-&-goldsmiths, Gorham Manufacturing Co. For almost a century Gorham silver and gold has furnished U. S. dining rooms, churches. Gorham bronze has gone into the careful details of U. S. buildings...
...Almost as soon as he was able to articulate, young Bennett knew that he would always be rich and that he would some day run the Herald. Tutors, France, champagne and the freedom of the Herald office furnished his education. New York's fastest society embraced him, because, unlike his father, he was a sporting blood. Delmonico's for luncheon, the Union Club* for late afternoon, anywhere for the evening?went young Bennett...