Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music and poetry. And they were al most all shot, almost all those pathetic blind men killed...
Scientific news is loaded with even more forbidding challenges. Voyager I, it seems, found a hot spot in the vicinity of Jupiter that is 300 million to 400 million degrees centigrade. Later, Voyager II, going almost 45,000 m.p.h., came as close as 404,000 miles to Jupiter's cloud tops on its way to Uranus-some 1.6 billion miles out there. Science now has an electron microscope that can magnify 20 million times and so can photograph a particle with a diameter of about 4 billionths of an inch. Computers can do 80 million calculations a second...
...such efforts to evoke the actuality of a billion are far likelier to give the curious a picture of an extremely tall stack of currency than of the quantity of a billion units. In truth, most mega-numbers (and micro-numbers) that fly by these days paralyze the mind almost as much as a googol...
Harvard continued to pressure after the goal. The score almost became 3-0 with 11 minutes remaining as Keller-Sarmiento again side-stepped Brickell but sent a tough angle shot wide of the unoccupied goal...
...second half, as against Dartmouth, Harvard played some of its best soccer of the season. Smith and Andy Kronfeld helped DiBonaventura feed the attack while Keller-Sarmiento and Mike Mogollan--reading each other almost telepathically--gave the Tiger backs fits...