Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...three fellows run out into the middle of the street when traffic was stopped and take pictures of me. The most amusing incident of the whole afternoon occurred when a minister took one of the handbills and read till he came to the word Socialist which is near the top of the page. Then, handing it back to me, he said: 'Socialism! Young man, you should be in jail...
...pain in the neck." He pointed out that behind all this "preposterous censorship" were not the Lowells and the Cabots and God, but the Caseys and the Kellys; however, he added, "the Cabots and that crowd are so scared of a left wing that they won't go near one, even if it's on a chicken...
Heathcote William Garrod, Professor of Poetry at Oxford who has been appointed to the Charles Eliot Norton Chair of Poetry here, expects to begin his public lectures in the near future, as soon as he is able to complete his plans for the series of six which are customarily given at Harvard...
...With the near completion of the steel stands enclosing the Stadium, figures announced yesterday by the Athletic Association show an unexpected saving of $15,000, according to the estimates of W. J. Bingham '16, Director. Originally planned at a cost of $170,000 the steel stands over the running track and enclosing the open end of the Stadium, will now probably come to no more than the total...