Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bender Report proposed solving the problem by giving bi-weekly group tutorial to all undergraduates. The Bender Committee felt that these groups, to be successful could not exceed five men. To keep costs within reason, individual tutorial would be eliminated except for a handful of honors seniors...
Thanks to such gadgets, the gross of the materials-handling equipment industry has grown from $250 million in 1948 to $1 billion in 1950. Sales are expected to exceed $2.5 billion this year. The biggest equipment-maker, Michigan's Clark Equipment Co., shot from $18 million sales in 1940 to $68 million last year, expects to beat $100 million in 1951. The runner-up, Yale & Towne (1950 sales: $65 million),has doubled production of materials-handling trucks since last June, expects to double it again within a year. Said Yale & Towne's Vice President Elmer F. Twyman...
...expected, the Met is ending its current season in the red, but the deficit should not exceed the one budgeted in the first place: $430,000. The public fund-raising campaign (goal: $750,000) has so far brought in $550,000. George Sloan, chairman of the Met board, called the season "one of the most successful from the box-office standpoint the Metropolitan Opera has ever...
...Claggart and Billy never assume human complexity, and this is the greatest weakness of the play. The performance of Torin Thatcher as Claggart is an attempt to hint at a human character where, in reality, there is none. Charles Nolte is more successful as Billy because he does not exceed the narrow limits of the part. He is convincing in his simplicity. Dennis King is superb in the best conceived and written part, that of Captain Vere. His smallest gesture is sure and meaningful. King presents a lucid portrayal of a man torn between what should be and what must...
...court found libelous. He served seven weeks in prison and, although he went on writing after his release, his health broke down. In 1894, he died. Time, which continued under various editors, finally ceased publication in 1891. Although no figures can be found, its circulation probably did not exceed 2,000 monthly copies...