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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious man, therefore I cherish America where I am free to worship as I please . . . and I suspect that 999 out of almost any 1,000 colored Americans you meet will tell you the same thing. But that doesn't mean that we're going to stop fighting race discrimination in this country until we've got it licked . . . We can win our fight without the Communists and we don't want their help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Help Wanted | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...almost offhand way, Eleanor Roosevelt put her head in the lion's mouth. In her column "My Day," she noted that Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, thought that Catholic schools should have a share in federal funds for education. Mrs. Roosevelt disagreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Day in the Lion's Mouth | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Stalking out of a meeting of the Republican National Committee last January, one disgruntled committeeman grated: "I'll give that guy just six months more." Last week, almost six months to the day, the committeeman saw his prophecy come true. In the interest of "harmony in our ranks," National Chairman Hugh D. Scott Jr. quit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Disorder in the Ranks | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

Frank Murphy was mayor of Detroit during the depression, when some 50,000 Detroit families were virtually pauperized. He opened closed auto plants as dormitories, handed out almost $30 million in relief, saving enough on the operating costs of his administration to pay for the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of an Apostle | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...sweltering evening, the shouts from the union hall on Kansas City's Main Street could be heard almost a block away. There was a crash of glass, and some bodies hurtled out onto the tile roof. One man dropped to the lawn, then dashed back upstairs to rejoin the fighting. Congressmen Leonard Irving, who is also president and business agent of Kansas City's Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union (A.F.L.), was talking things over with his rank & file...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Trouble at Home | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

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