Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democratic big guns, ranging from Vice President Alben Barkley to Representative Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., raked the state with oratory. Labor worked as never before. New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey, still smarting under criticism of his ''me, too" campaign in 1948, stumped the state almost as widely as his candidate. He called for a "holy crusade" to elect Dulles, lent Dulles a campaign staff...
That statement in Crommelin's personnel file made it almost certain that he would not be promoted to rear admiral (he was the second ranking airman in line) by the selection board which meets this week. It also greatly diminished his chances of ever attaining flag rank...
...restively before their weather-seamed shacks, slicing their tobacco thin, and talking. Eight weeks of strike had been too much for the 380,000 United Mine Workers. Almost three months of the wizened pay of the three-day week had been uncomfortable enough, but the strike that followed had nearly emptied the flour sack and gobbled up the last flitch of bacon. The kids went off to school with scrimpy breakfasts...
...Almost everyone in the area found himself in a crowd last night, but neither the crowds nor the police who were ready to handle them were excited or worried...
This increased freedom to study in "unrelated fields" came into effect two years ago after ten years of study initiated when Seymour took office. In addition, the Yale undergraduate can take an almost unlimited number of courses in the graduate schools and may even major in a field in which a graduate school offers the only courses available...