Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair weather can be seen, in time to aim the guns. The one large question mark remaining is accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that defending planes can no longer count on overtaking offensive squadrons. Hence, to be of use, pursuit must be in the air and ready to fight when bombers arrive at a given point. To be there, pursuit must have warning of the approach and course of enemy bombers...
...Rabbits will have to exceed last Thursday's performance, when they were outfought and tied by Eliot, 0-0, if they are to take the measure of Kirkland, defending champions. And such a possibility is unlikely...
Charleston, S. C.--Soldiers of the regular army and National Guardsmen tonight patrolled 30 debris strewn blocks of this historic old southern city where two rapid -fire tornadoes had killed more than a score of persons, injured 350 and piled up property damage estimated to exceed...
Under Dr. Salazar's tutelage Angola, beginning in 1930, for the first time made exports exceed her imports. The underprivileged population continued, however, to live in hovels, to scrabble for a living with primitive implements. Discontent was widespread. Angolans appealed for funds from home. Finance Minister Salazar, resolute for balanced budgets, refused to listen. When Governor-designate of Angola, General Joao d'Almeida, three months ago asked for relief funds, Premier Salazar instead sent him into exile...
...Exempted small utility holding companies from the Public Utility Act of 1935 ("death sentence"). Promulgated by SEC was the new rule exempting from all provisions of this law utility holding companies and subsidiaries whose entire system gross revenues derived from the utility business did not exceed $150,000 in the last fiscal year. Utility men estimated the number of such companies at about...