Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kilometer detour. The Palermo starters, who ran into the toughest driving of all, had to ferry across the Strait of Messina and take a railroad flatcar ride through the Simplon Tunnel. They also hit fog at Florence and sleet at Milan. Though the Italians got a special dispensation to exceed the rally's maximum 65-kilometer-per-hour average speed (because of time lost at the Simplon Tunnel), they still had trouble with blinding snow along the French stretch from Le Puy to Valence...
...Earl J. McGrath, Commissioner of Education, said that both "aptitude and means" tests would determine the stipends of the selected students which would not exceed $800 a year. The youths would choose their own colleges...
...Committee also proposed that no freshman be allowed on any varsity team and that the basis for scholarships be only the student's educational ability and financial needs, and that in no case should the amount exceed these needs...
...cars. ¶ Housebuilding will be maintained at 800,000 units a year, freight cars trimmed from 9,000 a month to 6,000, steel for hospitals and schools cut to 45% of the total demand. Even the military's metal supplies will be cut wherever Wilson believes they exceed the needs for immediately "doable" production. For example, the military's structural steel will be cut from their requested 192,000 tons to 171,000 tons...
Both Dummer and Mather, the two men who persuaded Elihu Yale to make his gift, were Harvard graduates. Dummer, in fact, was one reprimanded by a classmate for boasting that "in a little time that nursery Yale would exceed Harvard." As for Mather, he was president of Harvard at the time he was soliciting so strenuously for Yale. He never did quite get into the swing of things at Cambridge, however, once denouncing Harvard Commencements as "very expensive and the occasion of much...