Word: almost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charges do apply to college generations now long past and to a time when the existence of an alumni committee made almost unavoidable some degree of graduate pressure in the selection of the crew. The gradual emancipation of athletics as Harvard which has resulted in the present independence of their administrators, is also indicated by the appointment of Mr. Whiteside It is significant that his selection brings to Harvard a coach who can hardly be suspected of being under the thumb of alumni influence. It should be possible to keep the new slate of Harvard rowing clean of any such...
...aftermath pertaining to the latest prohibition massacre when three rum-runners were slain with a minimum of warning by the Coast Guard defenders is proving almost as interesting as the incident itself, and certainly more humorous. The Treasury Department, although admitting it is not in complete possession of the facts, as candidly declares the Coast Guard is incapable of wrong-doing while engaged in the pursuitence duty. Assistant Secretary Low man yesterday was more astute or perhaps more bewildered, so far as silence may be taken as a criterion. It is merely a matter of choice...
...theory advanced by Dr. Shapley at the meeting deals with the distances in the universe and fixes these relative distances larger than ever before, almost beyond the conception of the human mind. The Harvard director has previously overthrown the accepted Kapteyn theory and has now elaborated on his own theory which replaced...
...Lynn to see the work being performed there in the making of fused quartz mirrors, an innovation in the manufacture of telescopes. A constant problem in astronomy is how to make bigger and better mirrors for the telescopes. Glass, which has long been used for the smaller mirrors, is almost out of the question for a really large project. The reason for this is that the surface curvature of these reflectors must be correct down to a fraction somewhere between a quarter to a half millionth of an inch...
...speedily put all such self-centered thoughts away as unworthy, and turned to a serious consideration of the clipping itself. The incessant voicings of the theory that intelligent curiosity must be aroused in the student have made it almost trite and certainly wearisome. Howsoever, it is one of the Vagabond's cherished beliefs. More, it is a pillar supporting the remainder of his beliefs. For if one is not curious he may never penetrate that pleasure, enhancing circle of native vagabonds who wander in and out of classrooms supremely unaware of monitors...