Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This term's enrollment of almost 1300 is an all-time high. Most of the directors, taking into consideration the recent drop in employment and slight economic regression, had previously expected the number of "students" to drop at this time. Although most classes cost only eight dollars for ten-meeting semesters, they were afraid that the public might hold its money in higher esteem than the Ceenter's courses. They were wrong. It seems that most adults already know something about the A B C's of Investments, and consider the Center's dividend of knowledge a thoroughly enjoyable...
...American home posed by even a relatively small number of women trained in litigation is an imponderable which must weigh heavily on our minds. The picture of a breakfast table transformed into a court room, with husband and wife engaged in bitter legal debate over the eggcups, is almost too frightful to conceive. But, in spite of the great danger involved, the fair-minded observer must conclude that the Law School's step has been well taken. Joint Instruction--never must the word "co-education" sully that happy arrangement--now envelopes the entire Yard in its embrace. Only the Lamont...
...readers of the Congressional Record Appendix must feel almost as bewildered as Alice these days. The Appendix has always been good to chuckle over with its collection of oddments from rural newspapers, speeches delivered before ophthalmologists' conventions, and poems written by constituents from the Congressmen's home districts. But lately the contributions have been weighted rather heavily toward the subject of the "welfare state...
...audience of almost 100 heard the Catholic clergyman say that "the walls of the spiritual ghetto are crumbling." Father Oesterreicher, himself a convert from Judaism, said that "leading Jewish scholars" are now discussing Christ...
...almost unanimously cheered the new policy which goes into effect September, 1950. It was the women who were unhappy about the lifting of the sex barrier at the Law School...