Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet will bring before Harvard eyes several competitors who have been credited with performances that would win them a place on almost any college track team. Among these is John Crowley, of the Roxbury School in Cheshire, Connecticut, who has attained renown in interscholastic circles as a weight man and jumper. He has heaved the 12-pound shot 51 feet 9 inches and the discus well over 140 feet. He can high jump 5 feet 9 inches and has covered over 20 feet in the broad jump. J. S. Birge also of Roxbury School has stepped...
With the announcement of the list of ushers for the Freshman Jubilee, plans for the annual dance of the first-year men are almost completed. The affairs will be hall in the Dining Hall and common Room of Smith Halls...
...response to a question regarding the other plays he has appeared in. Mr. Hampden said, "I gave almost 500 performances of 'Hamlet,' 600 of the 'Servant in the House,' and 360 of 'Caponsacchi,' 272 of which were consecutive. In the last analysis I prefer playing Shakespeare to any other writer, other dramatists have not the same terrific force that he has Acting Shakespeare is like bathing in the ocean...
...Singleton, England, the school bell rang for recess. The fat boy, aged six, was jammed in his desk, could not rise. When the village carpenter had sawed the desk off him, recess was almost gone...
...Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors...