Word: almost
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...Governor B. from California and Governor W. from Michigan and Governor M. from New Jersey, all of whom are very active these days winning friends and denying everything. Senator J. from Texas, who many sophisticated observers say has been President since 1953 anyway, continues to keep everyone in Washington almost happy at the same time, carefully spreading himself wtih intriguing regularity over the front page of the New York Times. And Governor S. from Illinois, who has actually broken down and run before, has something printable to say almost every day. All of these men refused...
...Guard New Orleans regulars, won 207,000 votes with a serious, nonsinging campaign. With the 340,000 total votes of the nine also-rans providing the prize, "Chep" Morrison and Jimmie Davis will doubtless battle right down to the January runoff primary (the Democratic nomination means almost certain victory in the April general election...
...undergraduate work is wrong. Most of the past and present editors of Audience have Harvard or Radcliffe affiliations. We have published Harvard undergrads in the past and will do so again. But where are all the good manuscripts? Nothing gladdens old people's hearts (some of us are almost forty) like finding a brilliant new writer.... Firman Houghton '41, Editor...
...minutes in the opening period, Wesleyan held a 20-11 lead. The Cardinals had little difficulty in breaking through the varsity's man-for-man defense, and the Crimson offense was stymied by the Wesleyan zone. Even when the varsity shifted to a zone defense, the Cardinals still scored almost at will, and ran their lead to 27 to 17 before the Crimson put on an aggressive zone press...
Despite a rash of recent criticism, Quincy House residents have voiced almost unanimous satisfaction with their much-discussed mural. A poll published in the Quincy Mascle shows that most students are willing to keep the work, a few are enthusiastic about its merits, and only a negligible minority wish to have it removed...