Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only the New Haven YMCA reported any openings, and even these have almost all been swallowed...
...Eliot eleven was able to score almost at will. Jim Rossiter led the way on two long touchdown runs, but a mixture of passes and deceptive line plays netted five touchdowns for the league leading Elephants. Jim Lowell converted five times...
...your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and get very tired and nervous. Then I could not sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This was the way, at night, that I thought of the meson theory...
When she is working, 27-year-old Judy Garland, who has been a Hollywood star for 13 years, gets almost twice as much salary as the President of the U.S. Last week Judy was finding her money harder & harder to earn...
Steaming Caldron. "Wash your hands!" became the cry of Semmelweis' life. The medical world replied by nicknaming him the Pesth Fool and easing him out of his assistantship. The remaining years of his life were marked by almost incredible persecution. As director of obstetrics in the miserable, tenth-rate Pesth General Hospital, Semmelweis, working day & night to oversee his prophylaxis, finally managed to cut childbed fever mortality to zero. But his assistants sneered at him and his superiors refused to give him or his theories any credit. When his book, The Etiology, the Concept, and the Prophylaxis of Childbed...