Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Margaret Sanger's recent visit to Cambridge recalls attention to a controversy which has had much prominence in the past few weeks. Almost simultaneously occured the raid on Mrs. Sanger's Birth Control Clinic in New York and the conviction of Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett for publishing a pamphlet simplifying sex problems for young people. Although in certain matters the police overstepped their authority in the clinic raid both actions were for the most part legal under the present statutes...
...course the subject of sex relations is one on which it is difficult to reason without overcoming strong and almost inborn prejudices. Nevertheless there is little to be gained in the long run by suppressing vital facts. Both Galileo and Darwin were bitterly reviled when they opposed traditional ideas with scientific discoveries. Yet their work is the basis of modern physics and biology...
Senator Edge, already the diplomat: "Charlie, the fact that you will be just across the Channel in London almost persuades me to apply for the Paris...
When President Hoover named James William Good as Secretary of War, Mr. Davis, having no desire to retire to private life, yearned for a diplomatic post, preferably Paris. Last week he discussed his appointment almost pensively: "My duties will be far away, but they will, I believe, be interesting...
...Almost as though to puncture any complacency this improving typhoid picture might create, the Government showed last week that cases, not deaths, of typhoid fever were increasing this year over...