Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elimination race to see who shall represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Cup Race abroad. Night came on. Rain, snow, conflicting winds buffeted the bags. Some bumped into mountains, crashed into barns. One was almost run down by a night-flying mail plane. Day broke. Two of the balloons descended, discovered they had been blown in circles all night, were only 27 and 32 miles from Pittsburgh. One other balloon came down in Pennsylvania. Seven others descended across the broad expanse of upper New York. After 36 hours, all but two had been heard from: Navy...
Last week he earnestly and almost eagerly testified that his company was financially interested in 13 newspapers scattered from Boston to Chicago and to Tampa, Fla. His story...
Spartanburg (S. C.) Herald-Journal, Columbia (S. C.) Record and Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: $855,000 of notes of the owners, secured by all the stock of these papers. In spite of the earnest Graustein statements about the Graustein press, almost all the rest of the press flayed the Graustein policy. Conservative editors saw it innocent enough but potentially dangerous to press freedom. The yellower sheets saw nothing but machinations of the Power Trust-and undoubtedly hoped to capture circulation from the 13 Graustein papers by painting them black. Said the Hearst press: "The Federal Trade Commission has uncovered the power...
Outrowing the Tech and Harvard University crews three and four lengths respectively, defeating the Crimson Freshmen by almost two lengths, and losing the jayvee race with only seven men rowing for the last half mile, three Cornell crews virtually made a clean sweep of the races on the Charles River Basin last Saturday...
Chemical Laboratories are doubtless almost as old as Chemistry herself--or as Alchemy, her ill-favored sister. They must, indeed, have existed in a primitive form in the prehistoric civilizations of India, of Egypt, and of Sumeria. Chemical laboratories as an instrument of teaching and training are a relatively modern institution. Strangely enough the first person, so far as we know, to have appreciated their value for this purpose and to have advocated their use was a President of Harvard College...