Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the days of Christy Mathewson and Chief Bender. But there was no delirium in the stands; coming as it did after cliff-hanger finales in both pennant races, this hitless brand of play was not the kind to inspire frenzied cheering. In the second game, the story was almost the same, in reverse. Brooklyn's skinny, curve-balling lefthander, Preacher Roe, gave up only six scattered hits while his teammates babied the one-run lead they had acquired in the second inning to a 1-to-0 victory...
Bartenders & Barbers. It would take a lot of doing. In the Police Gazette's heyday under Publisher Richard Kyle Fox, who made a fortune in his 45 years as owner (1877-1922), the weekly magazine had a circulation of almost 500,000 and a readership in the millions. No well-appointed barbershop, saloon or Army post could afford to be without the Gazette...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
...pulling, the play swarms with rather impractical jokes. Then there are Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek, those relentless cutups whom a later age would have relegated to the funny papers. They also have a way of dragging Malvolio-a great comic figure by virtue of being almost tragic-down to their own level...
...Lord (by W. Douglas Home; produced by Lee & J. J. Shubert and Linnit & Dunfee Ltd. by arrangement with John Krimsky) is one of those comedies that are blatantly British and otherwise quiet as mice. Treating of a titled family that has almost gone broke and an England that has gone Labor, it couldn't be more concerned with politics or less concerned about them...