Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That the inoculation will not be a mere injection of the needle is obvious in the nigh-failure of the independent reading system here at Princeton. The success of this month's reading period will prove to a degree whether or not Princeton may be compared with Harvard in the realm of intellectual curiosity and integrity...
...following have been elected to the Dramatic Club for their work in the fall play, "Jonah and the Whale," it was announced last nigh...
...back to the U. S. A. where marriage is a mockery, so it has fallen to my lot as a patriot to kill you. This is a solemn warning that I shall do so." In numerous other notes polysyllabic English writers informed Mrs. Simpson that the date draws nigh when she will indubitably perish...
...Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since last spring...
...possible extension of such detection to all human diseases set Professor Burr's imagination afire, impelled him to crow last week: "The technique should be a new and powerful weapon for the analysis of fundamental biological activity. . . . It seems well nigh unlimited in its application...