Word: exceptionally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barnett took her Indian to Holly-wood and they moved into a $50,000 home, as fine as any movie actor's. They lived happily enough, except that the heat some-times bothered the old man and he occasionally pined for his Henryetta neighbors. His wife gave him petty cash to spend...
...causeless optimism aside, the plan is not a bit more promising than its myriad forerunners. Too numerous are names like Ford's Peace Ship and the Hague Conferences and the Neutrality Agreements. These, except the first, had at least a practical excuse for existence. There was hope for more humane conditions in war; there was interest in preserving the independence of the small nation. But all the treaties of civilization have not been able to outface primitive necessity. Why hope for anything better under the spire of a single morgue of past successes--and failures in the endless striving...
...century or more ago, when college presidents were active members of the teaching faculty, giving courses and advising students on a field of study like any professor. Of late, the growing complexity of university organization and administrative details has kept the college heads away from the speaker's platform, except for those occasions met in performance of duty...
...believe big warships are absolutely useless except for fishing schooners.? I believe a little destroyer is worth more today than a big battleship, and a battleship is not worth much. The submarines are the most efficient arm of the Navy left. Airplanes and submarines together can put out of action all the big ships ever produced...
...effort was completely frustrated except at Ciudad Real, where a regiment of light artillery rebelled and occupied the small barracks of the Bienmerita. They placed artillery in commanding positions sweeping the avenues and roadways, and detained all trains...