Word: almost
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There is a possibility that certain economies can be made without impairing the program. In this field, Bolles praised the efforts of the Undergraduate Athletic Council which this year suggested a number of small items that will save the HAA almost...
What makes the chop-down odds so high in this particular case is the fact that the team has been defying expectations in a most puzzling fashion all season. Estimates of its merits have had to be revised almost from week to week; and there is no reason for thinking that this situation will change in the time that remains...
...first he was not worried, for he was no novice to the game, and he knew that what you don't know forty-eight hours before the exam you have not got time to learn. But after twenty minutes of almost severely reduced concentration he knew that somewhere, something was wrong...
...course, although the Russians have offered proposals similar to this one on several occasions in the past, they are not likely to accept it now. Almost any form of re-unification could be acceptable to the West, except one that involved the entry of Soviet troops into West Germany (Russian soldiers form rapid attachments to places they visit, and they just hate to go home). The Soviets seem to be taking the attitude of "Nobody really wants to unify Germany" and are concentrating rather on hardening and formalizing the lines that currently divide Europe...
...17th century discoveries that finally put Ptolemy's epicycle machine on science's junk heap, Author Koestler offers personable profiles of the leading cosmologists-Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo-as well as lively popularizations of their thought. He also makes his book's mildly controversial point, which is almost beside the point, that these scientific greats sleepwalked their way to profound insights, with a kind of intuitive genius that turned even wrong questions into right answers...