Word: almost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost from the first, the irritating deficiencies in the Crimson's style, which had hampered it in both the Northeastern and Brown contests, got Harvard into serious trouble. Twice in the first minute of play Eagle forwards poured into the Harvard end, let in by careless backchecking. And twice the Crimson's frustrating inability to clear the puck gave Boston College open shots on goaltender Bruce Durno that were just inches away from goals...
...becoming obvious that Harvard's two-goal lead was almost meaningless in the light of its hang-on style, and another goal, while completely necessary, was going to be difficult to obtain...
Three of the Crimson's four heavy-weights delivered wins to narrow the gap. Harvard's Mark Faller (167) trailed Tom-Young for two periods before taking a slim 6-4 lead in the last stanza. Faller was then able to ride Young for almost two minutes to preserve victory...
...smooth-faced young compulsive or a solid English gentleman, he gained admission to private gambling clubs and forced men with his eyes to play millions of marks into his hands. Made up as Dr. Weltmann in long seraggly hair and beard, he conducted public demonstrations of hypnosis that almost succeeded in doing away with his arch-enemy, detective de Witt. Undisguised he discarded the women who loved him and abducted those who did not. At the end, in a house surrounded by cops with the Army arriving, he imagined he could outgun them all and escape to impose his will...
...change of mood from the first to the second Mabuse is complete. Each character of the second is typed, limited, almost judged in a hard, bitter manner. In the place of the ambivalent de Witt we have a pig, Inspector Lohmann, whose chief distinction is the dread in which petty criminals hold him. A practical detective, Lohmann works not by mental penetration and battles of the will, but by reconstructing acts men have already committed. He uses physical clues to track down the master criminal where de Witt tried to discover his identity and scize Mabuse himself...