Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, the number of these borderline decisions is almost certain to increase in the future. Dean Monro is actively campaigning for a program of proselytizing and emphasizing the worth of college. Several times he has called for "recruitment" of college-worthy students from low-income areas, students who rarely go beyond secondary school and who lack the preparation provided by college-oriented high schools and prep schools. Harvard thus seems to be playing one hand against the other: first, encouraging applications from ill-prepared students; and second, having to deny or question seriously admitting these applicants...
...Engineers dominated play through the first half of the first period. The ball almost constantly remained near the Crimson goal--and twice it was a combination of blind luck and Stone's agility which prevented them from scoring. Once, a Tech attackman lined a hard shot to the left of the goal which Stone managed to deflect, and a few minutes later no one could kick in a ball which rolled around the Crimson cage for nearly a minute...
...occupied the crowded Shubert across the street. The Repertory promised--and provided--what theatrical experts had been demanding for years: an opportunity for rich and poor and cheap and lavish and ignorant and learned alike to go to the theatre, often and conveniently, to see good plays well acted, almost, perhaps, the way they drop down to Washington Street to see bad movies barely acted...
Evidently this opportunity is one thing that Bostonians and their suburban neighbors, including, perhaps, the Harvard community--almost unanimously do not want. Repertory Boston is dying of one uncomplicated ailment: box-office malnutrition. Their productions were generally well-reviewed, their theatre was well-located and commodious, their advertising was widespread, their prices were low. But nobody came...
Noting the influence the AEC and Defense Department wield for continuing the tests, Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry, bemoaned the fact there is almost no "peace lobby" in the United States...