Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although only 75 men have replied that they will definitely attend next term, the number of men entering in March is likely to exceed that figure. War veterans will probably swell the total as they did for the class...
...newspapers, apologized to its readers for a mistake perpetrated in its youth. Published every weekday throughout the year except on Good Friday, Christmas and Boxing Day,* the Times blamed a careless 18th-Century staff for an error which had caused the serial number on its front page to exceed the proper figure by 23. The mistake, said the Times, would be rectified by numbering 23 issues with the same number: 49,950. Last week, with the grievous error atoned for and corrected, the Times proudly printed its true 50,000th issue. For the occasion it devoted several columns...
Eleven weeks after the epidemic's peak (TIME, Sept. 25), a belated report-451 new cases of infantile paralysis for the week ending Nov. 18-made it official that 1944 is the second worst polio year in U.S. history. The 18,490 cases thus far reported exceed 1931's full-year total, but are mercifully short...
...capital value is placed on the plant. With new-facilities, he saw no reason why Geneva should not undersell the East, and help supply the 2,000,000 tons which the West bought from the East prewar. Most of this steel came by rail and water at costs that "exceed reasonable rates from the Utah plant." The two prime obstacles to private operation: 1) Geneva may not get the benefit of the low rail-water rates of Eastern steel mills, 2) the Government may ask a whopping price for Geneva. Professor Mahoney optimistically expects that favorable postwar Western rates...
Although the U.S. had a bigger supply of raw wool than ever before, retail inventories of woolen goods ran low. Civilians hoped for a warm winter. With 10% fewer mill workers than last year, woolen production for the first quarter of 1945 may not exceed 90,000,000 yards, of which 60,000,000 yards are needed to fill Army, UNRRA and other Government orders...