Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While only a third of the respondants found college "an intellectual stimulus," almost a half said college had developed them "socially...
...Considering the group as a whole," it claims, "college is believed to have been of value in almost every aspect of life...
...waiting for the completion of the buildings, Donham had meanwhile been working on his second, goal, that of "expanding laboratory facilities." By 1927 when the grounds were dedicated, eight intensive years of visiting business plants bad blossomed into almost 6,000 case studies. School researchers have kept the case stocks "active" by constantly watching and visiting business to gain not only new case situations but evidence of outdated situations as well...
...committee, which is headed by Bender and is composed of faculty members, has worked for almost a year studying the present system and trying to find a new one that does not cost too much money...
Perhaps he is best known for his fiery interpretations of Stravinsky, but he showed remarkable self-restraint in the two Mozart pieces. Both were played with almost painful simplicity, endearing Bernstein in the hearts of the many to whom Koussevitzky's racy Mozart was heresy. In the B-flat Concerto, which he conducted from the piano, Bernstein achieved another tour de force for which he is famous, pacing the Orchestra with everything except his hands. Scowling, grimacing, heaving his shoulders like an asthmatic, he managed to wind himself up into every sort of contortion, but the effect was still only...