Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left, almost all of us, when the Herald quit the drafty but colorful old rooms overlooking Les Halles and moved into splendor and near bankruptcy near the Etoile. We are scattered all over the world, now, but I think our records in our chosen fields indicate that the Herald was staffed, at one time, anyway, by an able, imaginative and productive crew...
George Marshall also began as a private (in 1902). But he had graduated from Virginia Military Institute, which in the Army is next best to West Point (or birth into an Army family). His great-great-grand-uncle was interested in coal and coke mines near Uniontown, Pa., where George Marshall was born on the last day of 1880; his great-great-grand uncle was John Marshall, greatest U. S. Chief Justice. Soldier Marshall was a mere first lieutenant in 1916. During the World War he got a temporary colonelcy, a chance to demonstrate his brilliance at staff direction, finally...
...land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near East...
...feet he and his navigator, husky, thin-haired Major Mikhail Gordienko, were using oxygen. Doggedly Hero Kokkinaki held his red ship, the Moskva, on its course. Near sundown, with no sight of sky or sea, his radio was frying with static like a pan of pork chops. Hopelessly lost, he turned Moskva back on its course. Finally with little more than two hours' fuel in the tanks, with oxygen running low, he fainted. Gordienko took over...
This Sunday the Crimson skippers will meet Brown in a regatta at Providence, and on Sunday, May 14, they will view for the Boston Dinghy Cup with 25 eastern colleges. This regatta will be held on the Charles River near M.I.T...