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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captured and again sent to Germany to work in the ruins near Berlin. At the end of the war he returned to Poland but left almost immediately, because the Russians had taken over. He returned to Germany, finished high school, and in 1948 received an IRO scholarship to the University of Hanover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Seven Displaced Persons Slip Easily into University Routine | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Poetry has a greater relevance today than almost ever in the past, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, said last night, in an Eliot House symposium on the "Poet and Modern Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Speaks In Eliot on Poets | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...Haven police have deduced from past Harvard-Yale weekends that almost all the visitors in the Bowl return immediately to New York or Boston or wherever else they come from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Haven Awaits Game, Anticipates Peace, Profits | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

Pretty soon a meek student came to my bed and asked if I needed any books or assignments. He was from Phillips Brooks House. I said no thank you, and I almost felt like crying...

Author: By Edward J. Ottenheimer jr., | Title: THE WALRUS SAID | 11/17/1949 | See Source »

...group around Mr. Conant was almost impenetrable, a fact which caused fretting among these circling on the periphery. In the vortex, Mr. Conant was slowly revolving as questions--the usual questions--were...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Tea at the President's | 11/16/1949 | See Source »

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