Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...performing musician is quite as inflated as the virtuoso trumpeter. Preparing for a good high staccato blast or a long, breath-defying legato lament, the trumpeter can puff himself up so much that the air pressure inside him may exceed that of an average automobile tire (24 lbs. per sq. in.). No other wind player can make that statement. No other musician can literally become so dizzy so easily. No other has such a constant fight between muscular tension and interpretive relaxation and grace...
McInally's three touchdown catches in one game established a new mark for Harvard football, while his sixth reception of the contest, coming at the close of the first half, made him the second man in Crimson history to exceed 1,000-yards worth of catches...
...annual limit on playing on tour, not to exceed 30 days per person...
...additional overcrowding in Eliot and Kirkland means less crowded conditions in some of the other Houses. Leverett House will exceed its optimal capacity by 20 students this year, but the House secretary called the situation a "significant improvement" over last year when there were 40 students too many. "Last year we bore the brunt of overcrowding," she said. "This year it seems to be more evenly spread around...
...Great Book of French Cuisine by Henri-Paul Pellaprat. Francophiles know better. Le plus meilleur livre is the 19th century The Physiology of Taste by Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, with entries on the erotic properties of truffles and rules of exemplary dinners: "Let the number of guests not exceed twelve ... the men witty and not pedantic, the women amiable and not too coquettish; the dishes exquisite but few ... the signal to leave not before 11, and everyone in bed at midnight...