Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Almost the entire Harvard eleven was honored by the Associated Press in its annual selection of mythical all star teams of the Eastern universities. Nine of the eleven regulars were listed in the "Honorable Mention" category of this selection, although none was included on either of the two teams chosen...
...first time in the history of the graduate schools of the country, the Harvard Dental School has inaugurated, as a part of its curriculum, compulsory exercise for Freshmen. This innovation in graduate school administration began this fall, following the example established by Harvard College almost a decade...
...seems," O'Brien said, "that the guide, who took the pictures, which are to be shown on Sunday, was climbing an almost perpendicular cliff on the Aiguille du Dru, which rises 12,000 feet above the Mer de Glace, in company with a young guide and an American climber. This cliff has the longest sheer drop on the mountain--perhaps 1,000 feet. The older guide who ranked as the second best in Chamonix led the way while the two less experienced climbers followed. It was the duty of the younger guide to 'belay' the rope to a rock while...
...Band has been growing steadily in size and importance in the last few years. In 1926, there were only 60 members, in 1927, there were about 65; and this year there are almost 80. Seventy-two of these men played at the last Yale game, after having first dined at the Harvard Club of New York and heard a talk on the fine points of football by Coach Blake...
...just the advertisement of a firm such as supplies uniforms for military schools and training camps--a masculine pendant to the Sunday supplement's illustrations of the minimum requirements to clothe the female form devine...The impression given by the work was a mistaken one, or almost that. The picture was not a poster, it was a Sargent!...And now at last, he had got down to the level of the subway...