Word: almost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hang as many comic or spectacular scenes as possible. "Stormy Weather" has a few such scenes. In every case the success of the routine lies entirely with excellence of the performer. Thus any credit for the film must go entirely to Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, and Fats. Waller. Almost every other performer who appears on the screen is either uninteresting, poor, or repellent...
PROVIDENCE, Dec. 18--Harvard almost won that big Ivy League victory here tonight, but unfortunately for Coach John Chase's skaters, history repeated itself. At 4:45 of a violent sudden-death overtime period, Warren Priestley scored the winning goal for Brown that whipped the previously-undefeated Crimson...
Priestley is the man who scored another overtime goal almost exactly a year ago to beat Harvard, 6 to 5, in the Arena...
...ranks with permanent tenure. Its conception and its mechanics were largely the work of William C. Graustein '11, professor of Mathematics, an outstanding geometrician. Graustein was an extraordinary individual who brought to administrative problems a precise and mathematical approach. He made out the course catalogue each year, almost as a hobby, for he enjoyed wrestling with its major difficulty: to schedule at different hours the courses which are most likely to interest any particular student, while at the same time not giving any teacher too rough a program...
...Employment Office has long prided itself on its ability to fill almost any sort of job, according to Holt. "As far back as I can remember, we have never turned down a request," he says...