Word: almost
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clear in northwestern Sumatra and partly cloudy in the neck of the Malay Peninsula for about five minutes early one afternoon last week. Half an hour later ! there were three minutes of almost perfect weather in the Philippines. If there had been perfect weather in all places the world would have been happier. As it was, there was a fair amount of contentment. Several hundred thousand dollars had been ventured on the prospect of there being good weather in those peculiar places during those particular minutes. Some twelve expeditions had traveled half way around the globe with unwieldy scientific impedimenta...
...That is almost the whole story of the British Open championship which Hagen won for the fourth time (second in succession) last week in Muirfield, Scotland. Diegel had a chance, but Diegel, as he usually does, blew up. Hagen, cautious as a cat, steady as a locomotive, did not blow up. That is usual too. The British entrants, despite their victory as a Ryder Cup team over the U. S. one week prior, figured scarcely...
Knowing about Skippy is, to people who do know about him, like belonging to a special, almost secret society in which there are only two members, Skippy and the person who knows about him. Of course, each member realizes there are lots of other members, because the comic-strip Skippy lives in and is syndicated in 85 daily and 40 Sunday newspapers throughout the U. S. But being a Skippy person is different from liking Mutt and Jeff or the Gumps. Skippy goes it alone, for one thing, although he is much younger than most comic-strip characters. Furthermore, there...
...Brokers. Since the spring of 1928, the Federal Reserve Board has been to reduce loans to brokers. These were last week about $1,500,000,000 than when the drive upon them Thus the drive obviously was fail Furthermore it was from the begin a lost cause. For almost the entire in loans to brokers came not from Manhattan banks, not from out-of-town but from private corporations. And, although the Federal Reserve could partially control the loans from banks, it could not at all control the loans from corporations. For the loans from corporations were not really credit...
Arkansas Natural Gas. Of Arkansas Natural Gas, Mr. Broun holds no less than 100 shares, the purchase apparently having been inspired by the 500,000 share turnover (TIME, May 13) during one day last fortnight. Mr. Broun bought the preferred, which has been almost stationary around 8. With his Arkansas Natural Gas, his public morality got once again all entangled in the tentacles of the Superpower Octopus. For Arkansas Natural Gas is a subsidiary of unique Henry Doherty's Cities Service Co., great among U. S. utility companies...