Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...black flag flying from the radiator of his motor truck. Careless undergraduates who left last spring with-out, making definite contracts to have their furniture moved are now being charged out of all reason. The work has been done and the contractor finds himself in a well-nigh impregnable position. He urges that he has fulfilled his contract, and that the time of payment is at hand...
Here is something American to the core-a thing most natively American in its every attribute, sprung like the border ballads from an aspect of American life now almost completely gone, preserved for the amazement of an age well nigh as different from the age that produced the rodeo as the Court of George V is from the court of Henry VIII...
...goes by every first name in the encyclopedia, but that does not deceive the public. She gets by on her costumes. To be sure it costs her a pretty penny. She spends a hundred thousand dollars on her dresses for this evening, tomorrow ' night her clothes may cost well nigh one hundred and fifty thousand. But why count the cost? The public gladly pays, to watch, twenty?thirty thousand dollars at a sitting...
...well-nigh impossible to imagine a more interesting document than Viscount Bryce's posthumously published "Memories of Travel." As the title would suggest, the book is a series of essays or sketches describing some of the places visited by the author during his long and busy life. Ranging from the account of a youthful adventure in Iceland, written in 1872, to a bird's-eye view of "The Scenery of America" as gained in his last visit to this country in 1921, the book not only gives us delightful descriptions of peoples and places, but also traces Viscount Bryce...
...Whenever a nation or an individual reaches the point where, as a result of war or shipwreck or otherwise, immediate destruction is inevitable, assent to the idea expressed is natural and well-nigh universal. There are multitudes of people who believe that the fundamental and controlling doctrine of the nation's laws should be in accordance with the principles of the Holy Bible, and that every lawmaker and administrator should be compelled to endorse and practice its undeniable principle...