Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lungs normally excrete almost a quart of water a day, roughly 1% ounces an hour. Horn playing is not normal breathing, and in two hours' playing time a horn will act as a condenser and easily catch a glassful of water from the lungs, sir, not spit...
...disappointment of Washington society columnists, who came this time not to jot down details of furbelows and jewels, but to spy out diplomatic incidents, Nazi, British, French, Russian, Finnish envoys avoided each other with frigid finesse. Near-incidents: 1) Russian Ambassador Constantine Oumansky almost bumped into Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, but just in time handsome Mr. Procope turned aside toward the chocolate cookies. 2) Rumors spread that the fancy pants of Mehmet Munir Ertegun, Turkish Ambassador, split slightly as he bowed before the President. No one could confirm this rumor, as the Ambassador stood poker-faced with his back...
...admitted faults and weaknesses in its administration. But, he said, "It seems strange to me that almost every day we should be reading of attacks on the Board and its personnel, but hardly anyone ever thinks of attacking those employers . . , who have flouted the law of Congress...
...legs, revealed that his status as 1940'$ leading If man is causing him considerable pain. Addressing Indiana University footballers, Paul McNutt touched on stories that he is 1) a stalking horse for Mr. Roosevelt; 2) a club wherewith the President can cow Jim Farley, who would rather have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt: "You don't know whether the quarterback wants you to carry the ball...
...escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser. This evened the count. It is extremely difficult for one submarine to sink another. Maneuvering for position requires great technical skill, and it is almost impossible to attack if the submarine is submerged. If the range is under 250 yards, the torpedo is likely to miss, and at short range the explosion of a torpedo is dangerous to the attacker as well as to the attacked. During the four years of World War I, British submarines...