Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club began to wither after the successful '38-39 season and went into a serious decline which led to its virtual disappearance during the War. Under the leadership of Nicholas Van Slyck '46, however, the group made a vigorous and successful comeback beginning in January 1946 with Assistant Professor Irving Fine '37 as faculty adviser and conductor...
...recent demise of Geography as a going concern was explained away briefly with the statement that "Harvard cannot hope to have a strong department in everything." Although this excuse hardly justifies the virtual liquidation of Geography, it is an uncontested fact that no university is "strong in everything," and no one knows this better than the prospective graduate student. He has tried to find it out the hard way, however, by thumbing through piles of catalogues--many of them outdated and otherwise far from adequate-- by pounding out reams of letters to various universities, and Ly depending too heavily...
...product became bad, and business soon fell to nothing. Dr. Kalmus turned the tide by what he calls "an osmotic oozing toward perfection." He developed the two-color process into a three-color one (red, green and blue), thus could reproduce every shade of color. This gave Technicolor a virtual monopoly on three-color pictures. Dr. Kalmus has done his best to keep it that way, by his tight control of every phase of operations...
...besides wanting to keep Harry Truman off the ballot. They wanted to insure their own re-election at home. And they hoped to gather enough power in the party to restore the two-thirds rule at their national convention-a rule which for 100 years had given them a virtual veto power over presidential candidates...
Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...