Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill was loudly hailed as a compromise victory for the proponents of flexible supports over those of rigid 90% support. In a way, it was−as long as the supports stayed flexible. If it was any consolation to the consumer, the bill that almost got through was worse...
Roads, railroads, bridges, herds, and banana and coffee crops had suffered perhaps $25 million damage. But it was the loss of the corn that would bring greatest hardship. For months to come, almost all corn would have to be imported...
...that cancer gets started by chronic irritation and that it is the product of heredity. Both, he said, are supported by evidence of "doubtful value," and both may cause researchers to ignore a wide field of potentially valuable research in preventing the disease. Dr. Hueper's main point: almost every known cancer-producing agent can be traced to environment, particularly certain processes of modern industries...
Last week the November issue of Astounding Science Fiction came out, with almost the exact table of contents that Hoen had talked about a year ago. To Hoen, now a senior at Buffalo's Canisius College, Editor Campbell and his contributors sent an autographed copy. Said astounded Reader Hoen: "I'd forgotten all about my letter. They didn't even answer...
Last week, as three of the scrolls went on display in Washington's Library of Congress, Dr. John C. Trever, of the International Council of Religious Education, announced that one of them was almost certainly the lost Book of Lamech, mentioned in medieval Greek lists of apocryphal books of the Bible. Because of the difficulty of unwrapping the fragile leather, only a four-by-eight-inch fragment containing 26 lines has been studied so far. The snippet, says Dr. Trever, seems to be a discussion between Noah's father, Lamech, his mother, Bithenosh, and his grandfather, Methuselah, about...