Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only respectable playing all afternoon came from Crimson pitcher Wally Cook. This unfortunate, although touched for nine hits in seven innings, permitted the opposition only one earned run. However, the support afforded him by his teammates made the job almost impossible...
Previously, the lightweight crew captured the five year old Biglin Bowl for the fourth straight year, as the varsity impressively trounced Dartmouth by almost two lengths. M.I.T. ended five-and-a-half-lentgths back...
...March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops for the South...
...Sullivan, Sullivan is always Sullivan, but here he is less so than usual. His pathetic numbers, for one thing, are all sheer glop. On the other hand, as almost always, the pretty tunes are sufficiently numerous to make the reputation of most composers, and to keep the casual whistler supplied for days...
...Myers as Ida, which is profoundly unfair, since Miss Myers is a big, beautiful girl with a big, beautiful voice, and deserves better. She can belt it out with the best of them when belting is required, but she has a comic sense unusual in a soprano, and manages, almost miraculously, to avoid giving the impression that she is about to emit a "ho-jo-to-ho," grab a horse, and make it back to Valhalla...