Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Salt Lake City. Murderers sent to this prison for execution are allowed to choose between hanging and shooting. Almost all take shooting...
...have spoken in my time at a number of public dinners and have proposed toasts on almost every subject under the sun. Tonight I speak with considerable embarrassment. ... It is not our national habit to invite men to dine to tell them how brave they...
...will be present at the meeting; E. C. Berkeley '30, second marshal; D. P. Adams '30; M. V. Anastos '30; F. Mcm Chambers '30; Sal Goldwasser '30; E. M. Lipman '30; and R. L. Phillbrick '30. As explained in a previous article by Phelps the selection will be based almost entirely on grades recorded at the Dean's Office. Only in a case when there is very close competition between two candidates will outside activities and personality be considered...
...seems almost impossible that yet another musical comedy--crime combine can twist itself into a successful talkie. But that is what happens. In the twistings the whole plot takes on a little original color and ends up quite apart from Hoyle. Miss Moore surprises with some not at all bad singing, then proves she can dance a bit, and tops the picture off with a couple of scenes of creditable acting. As a final touch she throws in a dash of clever satire of a chic Parisian light musical star...
...imagine," the article runs, "a university announcing to its prospective freshmen that they must submit to an examination on a given day and refusing to tell whether it would be in Sanskrit, chemistry, trigonometry, biology, or psychology? A football player would be almost equally at sea if he had no idea of the type of game which his opponent would play, for the possibilities are as varied as the branches of scholastic learning, or would be if every coaching camp carried the possible variations of the game through to their extreme limits...