Word: almost
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...only score of the game came about the middle of the second half. The Rovers, after several unsuccessful attempts at goal which were blocked by Paul, carried the ball to within striking distance of the goal by good passing, and J. Mellon scored. Harvard showed improvement almost immediately and kept the Rovers distinctly on the defensive for the rest of the game, and though the Harvard forwards had several chances to score they were never able to avail themselves of the opportunities...
...labored steadily onward, never courting prominence or notoriety, but at the same time deeply grateful for the many testimonies of admiration and respect from the world of scholars which poured in upon him in increasing numbers during the past ten years. His last illness, though prolonged, was mercifully almost painless, and it was eminently characteristic of him that up to the very last he found his most congenial occupation in correcting and preparing for the press the work of another--the doctoral dissertation of a recent graduate of the University who had been one of his favorite pupils. As long...
...cannot be denied that the spirit of this rule is almost never complied with in football games, though the audible coaching of players is a rare occurrence. When every substitute who is sent into a game bears a message to the team, and when, as sometimes is the case, the only reason for a change of players is the opportunity for giving instructions to the quarterback, there is a very evident departure from the intent of the rule. Frequently, too, instructions are given as in baseball by the position of a coach or player on the bench. Given two teams...
...Merrill began his lecture with a brief history of the development of the aeroplane, which is the only practical method of the three employed to elevate a heavier-than-air machine. The other two the use of vertical screws and the oscillation of wings, involve almost insoluble questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem...
...present number of the Illustrated is timely in the journalistic sense in that it is almost exclusively devoted to football. The leading article, however, is by ex-Governor Guild, "Should Men Join Political Parties?" Governor Guild argues that every man should be an active politician and that it is only by means of party that practical results can be obtained. In so far as the arguments concern the active politician they are valid, but Mr. Guild has not noticed or does not mention that the old-fashioned party man has passed away and that the average man now votes with...