Word: almost
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game where the man on the mound will be the significant figure, Ed Wadsworth may well turn out to be the Crimson's answer to Kirby. Though last year he had almost hopelessly poor control, Wadsworth now seems to have overcome this difficulty. Still far from making every pitch a strike, he has, nonetheless, done excellent work in three outings this spring...
...music, Charleston music. The Boy Friend is on in the Winthrop Junior Common Room, and a well rehearsed band makes the lively score heard as far away as the Lowell court yard. Were the whole production equal to its music we would have perfection; as it is we have almost the next best thing...
...Friend is well worth seeing, and the Friday and Saturday sell-outs leave tonight as a last chance. Or almost as good, one of these balmy evenings stroll by the House, listen to the music, and watch them change sets through the Common room windows...
...CRIMSON became the Service News; the College was in session all year, and the fervor of a nation at war pervaded the usually staid Cambridge scene. Just as World War II did things for Harvard, however, the University did things for World War II. 25,540 of the almost 100,000 living alumni and students served in the Allied forces and 455 of them never returned. In addition, 654 Faculty and staff members, one-third of the peacetime total, were serving in either military or government capacities...
Another such example was that set by Charles H. Taylor, whose wartime activity almost resulted in a visit to Kirkland House by General Omar Bradley. Taylor went into the army in 1942, and was assigned to the editorial branch in Washington, where his job was to aid in collecting and disseminating intelligence reports and bulletins, writing reports on how to use captured weapons. He worked in this capacity with Tony Lanero, the Scotty Reston of his day as chief Washington correspondent for the New York Times...