Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fraternities, 26 are so-called "Christian houses" and 11 are Jewish. But the relative numbers of Jewish students far exceed their proportion of fraternities. Thus while almost any Christian who so desires can join a fraternity, many Jewish boys find that they are "not good enough" to make one which can afford to be choosy...
...consumes 9,000,000 bbls. of oil daily, well over 50% of the world's production. The Chase Manhattan Bank predicts that U.S. oil demand will rise another 53% in the next decade, to some 12.8 million bbls. daily. Yet estimates are that domestic production will probably not exceed 10 million bbls. daily, leaving a net deficit of 3,000,000 bbls. that must be made up from imports...
...District of Columbia. West of the Ohio, the only states equally lethal are California, Louisiana and Nevada. Among women, the rates average less than half those of the men, but the geographical variations, on the whole, follow a similar pattern. Men's death rates from heart disease exceed women's at all ages, but by far the greatest variations between the sexes are caused by the soaring rates among men aged 45 to 64. These are the main findings of a study conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (among whites) for the years 1949-51. State...
...search for more oil, the new muds will make it possible to drill 10,000 ft. deeper: e.g., South Texas, now limited to 15,000 ft., could go to 25,000 ft.; South Louisiana, with the world's deepest oil well (22,000 ft.), could now exceed...
...rake turned highwayman as his hero. Whereas Handel had been intrigued by the idea that savages could be as noble as lords and ladies, Gay argued that nobles could be as savage as the lowliest pimp; his characters, though they try desperate hard, are despondent over their failure to exceed "the quality folk" in treachery and knavery...