Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Three months' furlough at base pay, not to exceed $100 a month, plus family allowances...
...compromise; it would probably not satisfy anyone outside the Polish Government in Exile, least of all Russia. Since its army in Britain and the Near East is Poland's greatest military and political force until Polish soil is reconquered, Sosnkowski's political influence will probably exceed that of the Premier. The Russians have been frank in their distrust of Sosnkowski...
...heighten the hearing-so that, for instance, strange chord formations seem easier to analyze under marijuana. Jazz-playing vipers may be outnumbered by "lushes" (alcoholics)-who almost never smoke reefers. Today, among all dance musicians (including those of the "sweet" bands), the percentage of marijuana smokers probably does not exceed 20%. But among hot jazz players there are few (except the confirmed lushes) who do not occasionally smoke...
This American radical, confronting the dangers which will threaten his country after the war, will be "a fanatic believer in equality." Though he will be willing, in times of peace, to let salaries and earnings exceed $25,000 a year (for he believes in equality of opportunity, not of rewards), he will endeavor to prevent the growth of a caste system by demanding really effective inheritance and gift taxes and the breaking up of trust funds and estates. Once every generation, in effect, wealth would thus be redistributed. This, Dr. Conant warned, "cannot be lightly pushed aside...
...largest military hospital that ever existed in the U.S. was the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond in the Civil War. It had 9,000 beds in 150 wooden buildings much like modern temporary barracks (the biggest present-day civil hospitals are state institutions for the insane, which rarely exceed 5,000 beds...