Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...substances. If atoms are knots of universal waves, as has been theorized, it may be at that transcendental moment when the knots get intricate enough to "materialize" as atoms that heat begins to show in them. Conversely, when all heat has been driven from a substance, as Professor Keesom almost did last week, it may be that "matter" will explode into those universal waves which man at present can call only "nothingness." What the violence of such an explosion might be, no man can guess but experimenter Keesom may yet find...
...France 40,000 people die each year from cancer, he learned.* Almost half of them kill themselves to end their pain. Should not the state "through pity put an end to the sufferings of those incurables who ask it of us?" he asked himself. Of course, human life is inviolable. Yet the state executes criminals. And of course religion forbids good-intentioned murder as well as offensive murder and suicide. But religion is a personal matter. Step by step he puzzled out the logic of his ethical problem: "Has the state, for reasons which are at bottom religious, the right...
...fortune and a blonde wife, a maker of men. When a Stroud wanted something. Destiny always took a hand; the Stroud got it. This Stroud now fixed upon one Lady Isabel. Her eyes were of "green ice," her hair was golden. She glorified in an expressionless face and almost no lips. Such a woman he would not love, he thought, so much as love to own. In order to own her he sacrificed his cherished friend Stemway who had a "dark soul...
...Henry used the trolley cars to go to the factory leaving the sedan for Aurelia. Almost every morning she drove down town, left the car in a hired parking space, and walked to a department store, taking note of her reflection in all the plate glass show windows on the way. In the store she might spend an hour pricing things and perhaps matching a shred of silk, buying a pair of stockings, a small vial of perfume or a box of scented powder. Then she would hurry to keep an engagement to lunch indigestibly with Stella Greeley...
...parts of the floor. Trapped shorts, feverishly covering, were shooting prices up at the rate of a cent between trades. At the close of the day, the market had staged a $300,000,000 advance, registered net gains of some 5½ to 5⅞ points. In one day almost one-third of the three months' decline was made up, and wheat was back over a dollar again...