Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Five U. S. orchestras played almost simultaneously last week their first concerts of the season...
Brigadier Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...
...posts" for U. S. agriculture from three to ten. He explained: "If we expect to expand our exports and understand our surpluses at home we must know conditions abroad." Proposed U. S. farm outposts: London, Berlin, Paris, Marseilles, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Melbourne, Johannesburg, Shanghai. Meanwhile, with the harvest almost over, the major situations confronting the Board last week were as follows: Wheat. A European buyers' strike made the U. S. supply mount up to peak levels, despite this year's reduced yield and the scare of a world wheat shortage. Latest crop estimate...
...Jewish undergraduates he likewise bellowed. They shied away, pretending not to notice Sophomore Clark. The reason for this paranoiac performance: Sophomore Clark was being initiated into Hasty Pudding Club, smart organization of trenchermen, toss-pots and thespians, which each year produces a musical comedy and each year, like almost every Harvard society, holds initiations in which absurdity, and failing that, bawdiness, is the criterion of success. The day after Sophomore Clark's Chinaman-mauling and Jew-baiting, the Harvard Crimson, undergraduate daily, editorialized: ". . . Public drunkenness which results in conduct objectionable to non-participants has grown to be looked upon...
...Almost tiresome has become the news of a new citation for excellence on the part of some member of the Harvard Law School. After a year's experience of almost weekly appointments to Committees and presentation of medals one wonders whether all the good lawyers in the country daily tread the corridors of Langdell Hall. But if the medals have to be given to somebody it is pleasant to know that Harvard is so often selected to share in the honor, and there is far deeper satisfaction in knowing that the members of the Law School faculty are taking such...