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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Almost a third of Cambridge landlords and half of the landlords outside the city refused to sign this statement, Mrs. Killborne said. In previous years, about 600 landlords from Cambridge and a similar number from out of the city have listed with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 450 Leasers Will Not Sign PBH Pledge | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...manage to be simultaneously dissonant and entirely inoffensive. The style draws on composers as disparate as Berg, Barber and William Schuman; there are also a few easily recognizable major triads. It is an odd work in some ways, since Mr. Stewart contrasts tense, massive climaxes with passages that are almost flip--the sly fillip of the flute at the very end, for instance. The opening is very attractive, with the theme (almost a twelve-tone row) announced softly by the low strings pizzicato to the accompaniment of saucy raps on the snare drum. But in the middle section--a sort...

Author: By Edgar Murray, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...Crimson track team will open its spring campaign against Army's vaunted Cadets today at West Point. Army is deep and strong in almost every event, and the thin varsity squad will need an all-out effort and plenty of luck...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Varsity to Face Cadets In Spring Season's First Meet | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

...second half of the game, it yielded seven walks in the last three innings. On the other hand Harvard's Ed Wadsworth began to lose control towards the end of the game, and although he walked only five, he let the count go up to 3-2 for almost every batter in the last three innings, and got his four strikeouts early...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Varsity Baseball Defeats Brandeis | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

Both teams' generally messy fielding caused much raucous comment from the almost empty stands and several arguments among the players. The errors ranged from the Crimson second baseman's letting a slow bounder go right between his feet to Kasarjian's stopping to argue with the umpire while he still had the ball, allowing a Brandeis baserunner to score. Because of the wildness of the Brandeis pitching, the varsity had a chance to show off some fast base running, although Boulris was picked off twice...

Author: By Jean J. Darling, | Title: Varsity Baseball Defeats Brandeis | 4/18/1959 | See Source »

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