Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Karl Baedeker, publishers of famed tourists' guidebooks; in Leipzig, Germany. At 15, he succeeded his father as head of the firm, brought out English editions of guidebooks printed in German and French, added books until he had covered nearly every country of the civilized world, made his publications nigh indispensable to travelers...
Presently the Cambridge boat came by rowing prettily. Wansborough was smiling. The Oxford crew, spectators learned, had put ashore, water-logged.* Trying to steal a lead on Cambridge at the start, it had dared the wind, the rough water of midstream, been well-nigh swamped...
...packed like olives, heard the great score greatly interpreted by Conductor Bodanzky, heard Frederick Schoor resonantly represent Wotan, Mme. Larsen-Todsen awake with sweet screams in her circle of fire, George Meader shiver with the impotent cunning of Mime, the dwarf. They witnessed, in addition, an accidental and well-nigh tragic incident which concerned Curt Taucher, tenor, who sang Siegfried, favorite of the Gods...
...battleship. The central and undeniable fact is that an Air Force today, passing in a few moments over trenches and armies and channels and fleets, can penetrate into the very heart of this country; and, whether material damage might or might not be inflicted, could make life well nigh unendurable for popular living, mainly in the large cities...
...group of solemn judges, their faces reflective of the well-nigh sinister gravity of their office. They were the Hanging Committee. All week they labored, considering case after case, ever and again despaching small dockets which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. They were preparing for the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. The doors of the gallery opened, the judgments of the committee and the consequent hangings stood patent to oglers...