Word: highly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Twenty ships a week is considered a high production figure. ... G. R. HUNTER...
Upon one side Generalissimo Smoot led the myrmidons of high-tariff-for-the-manufacturer. Then came stout Republicans one and all. Lieutenant-General James Eli Watson (supposed leader of the Republican army) and Major-General David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, spokesman of Secretary Mellon, labored incessantly to bring their forces stout-hearted to the fray, casting side glances at stragglers (those Republicans who every now and then hinted some doubt as to the sacredness of their cause). Across the aisle, Field Marshal Furnifold McLendel Simmons of North Carolina urged on the troops of low-tariff-for-the-consumers. Behind...
...going to have a high time here Tuesday evening. Sister Jean is going to give me a grocery shower. Wednesday afternoon Helen Manning is having a bridge tea for me at the Hartford Golf Club. And on Thursday luncheon, bridge and a shower at the golf club again...
...fleet and get a mail contract thrown in." To that effect was the high-pressure sales-talk of the U. S. Shipping Board when it advertised its merchant ships. Lured by the lucrative lagniappe, the United States Lines, the Mississippi Shipping Co. and several other corporations contracted to buy fleets and straightway confidently filed applications for mail contracts. The fleets were handed over promptly, but the mail contracts, purporting to "foster U. S. shipping," lingered...
Commented a high Labor official...