Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus faced with a well-nigh desperate situation, Belgian royalty bethought itself of royal nieces. There was, for example, Princess Astrid, 20, robust daughter of Prince Carl, Duke of Vastergotland, a younger brother of scrawny King Gustaf V of Sweden. Recently it was decided that she would do very nicely...
...railways? Or perhaps, thought parishioners, Bishop O'Connor in-tended his edict as a rebuke, perhaps the fathers had been over-zealous in their ministrations to the accelerator. Had they been gallopading? Driving with one hand ? Gas-hawking, road-hogging? Amazed that good Catholics could ask such well-nigh blasphemous questions, Bishop O'Connor made answer. For no such ribald reason had he forbidden motor vehicles. He simply felt, he explained, that priests in the city did not need them...
...noted on their faculty roster a name new to the roster, old in fame-Mahatma† Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The Mahatma, well-informed, later asked students what they would have him teach. Eagerly they sought seclusion, consulted. Would it be political history from this great leader who had well-nigh secured Indian independence in 1920 by his famed policy of "passive resistance?" Or sociology?-Gandhi's profound knowledge of the "caste" system was none the less because in 1920 he had failed to persuade the masses and the "untouchable castes" to treat each other as "blood brothers," thereby causing...
...McGovern safely reached London after being missing for months at the headwaters of the Amazon. One of his comrades was drowned in a river whirlpool; he himself nigh died of a jungle rheum. Hostile tribes, insects, vampire bats and reptiles beset his wanderings but he survived with tales to tell of unsuspected gold, silver, coal and oil deposits; and of being initiated, at rites which no woman may attend, into a freemasonry of bronze-skinned jungle nomads. Dr. McGovern, who though still in his twenties has scoured the globe's face from London to holy Lasa, was in time...
Systems of censorship possess a peculiar fallibility, an inconsistency which often glitters in the public press. By the very nature of their task, the suppression of obscenity, boards of censors are confronted with a psychological difficulty which is well-nigh insurmountable. An acute mind can trace delicate touches of sensuality, deep into literature...