Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reason. The year's fiscal realities will exceed the hopes. Last January, when the 1955-56 budget was sent to Congress, expenditures were estimated at $62.4 billion and receipts at $60 billion, leaving a deficit of $2.4 billion. Both estimates were too low. Defense expenditures for the year (at $34.5 billion) will be some $500 million above the estimate; some other expenses, e.g., the cost of supporting farm prices, have gone up. Anticipated expenditures now stand at $64 billion. But revenue has gone up even more, now is expected to hit approximately the same figure. If the year...
Preliminary results from this year's drive already indicate that although certain College groups have received larger portions, the over-all total will barely exceed last year's meagre $10,400. Now before work begins on next year's drive, student representatives--particularly the Student Council--should put their minds on precisely "such things," and begin a thorough study of the Combined Charities puzzle...
...said. In addition, many of the top five per cent will be girls, many others will want technical or vocational educations, and many of the young men seeking liberal educations will not want to come to Harvard, Bender continued. He estimated, therefore, that applications to the College will not exceed 10,000 to 15,000 a year out of the 2,000,000 college applicants throughout the country...
Divinity School enrollment, which has increased steadily in the past three years, may exceed next year's projected goal of three hundred students, Dean Douglas Horton announced yesterday. He also outlined new plans for a dormitory to house the incoming students...
...priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...