Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dramatic expression on the part of the nation's leaders." Over 5,000 letters signed by Editor Russell Doubleday were sent to business and professional men throughout the U. S., soliciting endorsements to a full-page newspaper advertisement to appear Jan. 2. Also solicited were contributions "not to exceed $100" to buy the space in as many papers as possible. Accompanying the appeal was an advance proof of the advertisement : an open letter to the President with World's Work noted as sponsor, and with surrounding spaces left blank for endorsers' names. Excerpts: ". . . our financial and industrial...
...Federal Government is engaged upon the greatest program of waterway, harbor, flood control, public building, highway, and airway improvement in all our history. This, together with loans to merchant shipbuilders, improvement of the Navy and in military aviation, and other construction work . . . will exceed $520,000,000 for this fiscal year. This compares with $253,000,000 in the fiscal year...
...Battle of the Bowl, more points will be scored in the Colossal Crater of Connecticut tomorrow than Harvard has scored in the last five games* The majority of these points will find their way into the Crimson scoring column, but the margin of Havard's victory will not exceed three points...
...generalized plea for good citizenship and law observance. He did not mention Prohibition by name. He reminded the legionaires of the $900,000,000 the U. S. is spending each year to care for 700,000 World War Veterans, declared that their "demands upon the government should not exceed the measure that justice requires and self-help can provide...
This year, because there has been so little rain, the work was begun a month earlier than usual. Last year flood conditions continued throughout the summer and only five million fish needed saving. This year's total is expected to exceed 150 million...