Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harbor on the Roma, last week; and out to greet him sailed his good friend Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York on the yacht Saelmo, owned by Shipbuilder William Henry Todd. Because of an extremely active southwest wind and choppy sea the Roma and Saelmo could not draw nigh to one another without danger. Therefore Friends Raskob and Smith were not reunited until some hours later in Manhattan...
...consisted of two distinct trials, respectively of Commander Daniel and Captain Dewar; but the charges and evidence in each case were substantially identical. To an impartial civilian it was clear that both the accused had acted from commendable motives in complaining against a superior whose conduct had been well nigh unbearable. This view was taken by practically the entire London press, last week, including the usually antithetical Conservative Daily Telegraph and Laborite Daily Herald. At Gibraltar, however, the Court held to the unwritten law of Navy discipline and found both the accused "guilty." Both were sentenced to lose their active...
Such consideration might once have been of importance, but after years of experimentation there seems to be developing a definite American system that is fitted to meet the unusual conditions produced by a well nigh universal demand for higher education. President Lowell has stated several times that Harvard is not working towards the organization of Oxford and Cambridge as a goal when it adopts certain of their features, but will make use only of those things that seem adaptable. The same applies to the other institutions of Europe. The older universities will retain for some time the attractions...
Through the lovely, verdant park of Cotroceni, at Bucharest, a pair of steel rails curve in and up to the Palace of Dowager Queen Marie. When a royal train draws nigh it can chuff conveniently into a trig, small station only a few score yards from the palace door. Last week came the train of Her Majesty Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, daughter of Marie of Rumania...
There are large numbers of people (and the writer includes himself in this category) to whom any sort of lecture or sermon is a well-nigh intolerable infiction, and if one is compelled to sit still while somebody continuously talks on a subject which one can more comfortably read for oneself, one develops an attitude of mind resistant to all influence...