Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years immigration outweighed by far the natural increase of the population. It does so no longer. Despite a birth rate which has fallen irregularly since Depression's onset in 1931, U. S. births are this year estimated to exceed deaths by 916,000-, while immigration exceeded emigration by only...
...which organized labor is making the most. In dealing with employers the law also gives organized labor another advantage by providing that employers having contracts with unions certified by NLRB may ignore the 44-hour week maximum so long as total hours worked under the agreements do not exceed 1,000 in 26 weeks...
With a heavy Republican vote registered in Massachusetts and throughout the nation, Leverett Saltonstall was elected Governor of Massachusetts over James M. Curley by a plurality that is expected to exceed 100,000. Elsewhere, Governor Lehman of New York was reelected but in other key states the Democrats suffered heavy losses. At 4 o'clock this morning Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Rhode Island, Ohio and Kansas had apparently returned to the Republican column...
Claiming that because of its topography, vistas of New England Fall foliage exceed those of less rugged sections, Wyman states that there is only one small region in South America, one region in Southwestern Europe, and one other place in North America where there are such colorings...
There are universities which vie with Harvard in architectural beauty; there are those which exceed it in enrollment; and there are more than a few which are superior in athletic achievements. But in one respect, Harvard still reigns supreme, for rate indeed is that university which can challenge its academic standing. Years of progressive educational innovations and the ability of outstanding scholars in every field of study have built up step by step at Harvard a machine for analyzing and applying culture and knowledge which is a tribute to the doctrine of academic freedom and which is almost without parallel...