Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commission is sure the converter will work. The theoretical calculations are complete; the engineering designs are almost complete. No fuel has been bred so far because the reaction will not work except in a full-scale plant. A $3,500,000 plant will soon be built at Arco, Idaho...
...clear," writes Dean Pope, "that mission activities will continue in China only at the tolerance of the Communist authorities." Under such conditions, "the missions will almost certainly collapse, in one way or another...
...some ways, he thought, U.S. students had the jump on their British counterparts. They are "more intellectually curious, more responsive to any influence, more deeply and immediately charmed by everything new . . . They seemed (and this could at times be very exhausting) almost incapable of boredom, or of more than a very surface scepticism...
After the concert last week, William Primrose said: "There isn't anything missing in this concerto. It has everything-excitement, pathos, deep feeling and in places an almost folksong quality." Added Hungarian-born Conductor Dorati, who introduced Bartok's opera Bluebeard's Castle in Dallas last year: "I think of this work as a wonderful and beautiful white diamond. It is just as hard, just as crisp and just as white. I think it is an explanation of the whole man who was Bela Bartok...
...vast store of nervous energy makes it impossible for him to sit still long enough to read anything but business reports. Even while dictating he usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...