Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as bad on Utah's famed Bear River marshes, where "bluebird weather" was keeping the ducks deep in the marshes...
...Dinners. Southward along the Mississippi flyway, which is traveled by the thickest squadrons of ducks and gunned by almost half the nation's 2,000,000 duck hunters, the shooting was the best in years. Hunters from all over the U.S. began to converge on Stuttgart, Ark., which brags that its flooded woodlands and rice fields make it the duck capital of the world...
...week's end Whitman totted up the results of the crusade. They had sold over 3,000 tickets, almost wiped out their season deficit. The team had won its game with Eastern Oregon 48 to 20. And the Walla Walla alumni had promised to raise enough money to pay half scholarships ($175) for 20 athletes a year...
Though the present student body is almost entirely Jewish, Sachar asks no questions about creed, welcomes students strictly on their merits. It is a university with a mission-"Not just another little school," says Sachar, "but a symbol of what the Jewish people want to contribute in the intellectual world...
...McCollum against the board of education of Champaign, Ill. Atheist McCollum had sued to prevent the board from making school premises available for religious instruction of pupils, and the Supreme Court had upheld her (TIME, March 22, 1948). The decision had set in question the released-time systems of almost every state, but for the organized Secularists this was not enough...