Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...essays should not exceed 2000 words in length, and should be in the main a readable narrative covering the high spots of the season. Factual data containing complete summaries of all events must also accompany the article...
Consulting some Pierce Petroleum officials, it learned that the liquidating value of PPX "based on the present price of Consolidated Oil Corp. stock ($17) in all probability could not exceed $1 per share . . . and might be materially less." Forthwith the Governors ordered PPX suspended from trading. In subsequent over-the-country trading PPX promptly plummeted to 37? per share. It was one of the few times in the history of the Exchange that the Governors on their own initiative had stricken a stock from trading to save suckers from their own folly...
...light beams; but to shoot bullets around corners, through a barrel embedded in a propeller shaft revolving several thousand times per minute-Wow! Even if the barrel grooves would turn in the same direction as the propeller the velocity of the bullet would, in order to be effective, far exceed that of the propeller revolutions; so that, even if the bullet should manage to leave the propeller shaft, the accuracy of its aim would be as cockeyed as that of the New Year's soak trying to hit the keyhole. Machine guns synchronized to shoot through propeller blades...
...three countries able to stand comfortably the strain of an arms race. During the next year, for instance, the United States and Great Britain are each to spend a half billion dollars in naval building. The sums to be expended by the European democracies for armies will exceed even these impressive figures. To a certain extent the countries ruled by dictators can match their rivals dollar for dollar, but not in the long run. As long as the democracies remained content with third-rate military machines, the dictators, with their limited resources, could still surpass them and make a good...
These awards, not to exceed six in number, have been granted since the fall of 1935. The schedule usually followed is to spend the first year at Harvard in preliminary research and study, the second in field work or a public interneship, and the third, again at Harvard in order to integrate the theory and practice of public service. Applicants for the fellowships must have a B.A. degree or its equivalent...