Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the issue of Philippine independence-an issue raised by the late William Jennings Bryan in 1900 and a Democratic ideal almost realized by the late, great Woodrow Wilson-should turn up as a by-product of a tariff debate might appear a matter of astonishment. But the Philippines and the Tariff have one thing in common-Sugar. Senator King's Utah is a great beet sugar State. Senator Broussard's Louisiana is a great cane-sugar State. The Senators did not argue about imperialism, about the rights of the Filipino, about the ethical or sentimental aspects...
...Washington sights, buying tourist knicknacks for the folks at home, Dr. Bogle confabulated with henchmen. Candidate Dewey confabulated, also Candidate Oliver. After covert dickers the association elected the Army's Robert T. Oliver their president-elect for 1930-31. An able dental technician, President-Elect Oliver is, like almost all his colleagues, not an important scientist. Neither Who's Who in America nor American Men of Science recognizes him. Neither do these compilations recognize outgoing President Howe or incoming President Bogle...
...gave the commercial monopoly because methods of manufacture were too delicate for novices to handle. Last year other pharmaceutical houses, in the U. S. and abroad, studied the preparations under Harvard instruction. So last week the Harvard Committee on pernicious anemia announced that good liver extracts were available almost everywhere, but that "the most rigid adherence to the recognized methods of preparation must be enjoined...
Last fortnight a London ''bobby," strolling through Hyde Park on his early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...
...another time some enterprising young gentlemen slipped out at night and removed the reveille cannon from its accustomed place. By some miraculous engineering, feat they hoisted it on top of the academic building and fired it off in the dead of night. It took a detachment of Engineers almost a week to lower the gun to its original position...