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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 14 (UP)-At a Massachusetts Institute of Technology meeting which was almost without incident, Communist Earl Browder told a capacity audience today that by a modern miracle the League of Nations " has risen from the tomb and speaks with a boldness and vigor it never had when alive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWDER'S SPEECH CAUSES NO STIR IN AUDIENCE AT TECH | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...young writer who started with "Bury the Dead" and has continued to turn out work of startling excellence. . . Ludwig Bemelman's "Small Beer" has ten sketches, dealing chiefly with Germany and Austria, pre- and post-Hitler. Well illustrated by the author. . . . "The Web and the Rock" is almost exclusively for Thomas Wolfe partisans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Bookshelf | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

...final 200-yard free-style relay may have almost anyone in it. But if the meet is close Coach Ulen will pit Powers, Bosworth, Curwen, and Stearns against the Alumni quartet...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Untried Varsity Swimmers Face Crack Alumni Mermen in Pool Meet Tonight | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

With neither side playing at its usual game pitch, the score was hardly indicative of the Crimson's strength. Coach Clark Hodder played almost all of his substitutes in an attempt to whip his lines into shape before the B.U. encounter Tuesday evening...

Author: By Peter Dammann, | Title: VARSITY STICKMEN TIE IN PRACTICE ENCOUNTER | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...Lacey can probably win the 175 pound position even reporting late, but another Junior, Dunc Longscope, and Senior Dick Lewis will let him know that the has been through a real dog-fight. Sophomore Dick Aldrich is close on the heels of both men. Almost the same thing applies to the heavyweight class where grappler-manager Tudor Gardiner holds forth. Big Vern Miller will undoubtedly learn a lot of wrestling in a few weeks under Pat Johnson, but hard-working Gardiner will give him a good battle before being displaced. Dick Harlow's endorsement of wrestling for many...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: What's His Number? | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

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