Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...double glass front doors of the White House are bound with bronze. For years they have been guarded by two tall liveried Negroes, trained to let no one through except the most high or the most favored...
Herbert Ill's sister, Peggy Ann, aged three, was a little more sedate, a little more aware of the importance of her position, except when her grandmother took her to the Amaryllis exhibition at the Department of Agriculture. There Mrs. Hoover, patience herself with children, had her hands full keeping Peggy Ann from clutching handfuls of the flowers. "I want 'em! I want 'em!" she kept repeating...
...been rejected. Apparently this "news" was taken very ill at the White House. Next day the State Department pointed out that the Litvinov motion had not been voted down but merely tabled on a point of order. The distinction is doubtless important, but the fact remains that no delegate except Red Russia's Litvinov proposed anything remotely approaching an endorsement of the cardinal Hoover point...
...linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications not only of the bridge but of a great railroad terminal in the neighborhood of West 57th Street and Ninth Avenue. Except for the fact that the bridge clearance was not quite high enough to provide for the masts of ocean liners, War Department permission seemed virtually assured, and very few ocean liners get as far inland as 57th Street...
...college, according to a recent report from there. Where formerly incoming Freshmen found their curriculum mapped out for them, under the new plan they are restricted only to taking three courses in divisions other than their field of main interest. Furthermore, all general college curriculum requirements have been abolished except that of a course in English composition. New emphasis is now being placed upon the requirements of the department in which the student majors, under plans similarly in use at Harvard...