Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Open Door. Even the Communists rejoiced that "the door to negotiations is open." L'Express, liveliest of De Gaulle's journalistic critics, reversed itself spectacularly: "Everyone, or almost everyone, is now 'Gaullist,' and there is reason to be. A plebiscite this week would surely exceed the 80% [of the recent referendum]: at this moment, the man De Gaulle is, in himself, the nation . . . One is now Gaullist in the same way that one is French." Tunisia's President Bourguiba declared that "the words proclaimed by De Gaulle have never before been said. On the political...
Blood pledged to the semi-annual Phillips Brooks House drive "should exceed last fall's total," Leon Rothenberg '60, co-chairman of the drive, commented yesterday. Although the campaign has not been completed, over 1000 pints have been promised...
...Between 45 and 55 teachers will be enrolled in 1959-60, and it is quite safe to forecast the number of applications to exceed 400," concluded Watson...
...Sendai City, 190 miles north of Tokyo, was a symptom of the ills that have turned Japan's press into a flabby-muscled giant. The 186 Japanese dailies have built up a daily circulation of nearly 36 million, trail only the U.S. (58 million) and Russia (57 million), exceed the rest of Asia, Africa and South America combined. In ratio to population, the Japanese circulation approximates that of the U.S., far exceeds Russia's. Biggest Japanese daily is Tokyo's outsized Asahi, which has four regional publishing plants and a staff of more than 7,000, turns...
...Ibadan. UCI was opened in 1948 and has been expanding ever since; present enrollment is about 680 and will eventually rise to 2,000. Affiliated with the University of London, UCI requires its students to satisfy full minimum entrance requirements of the former. Academic standards, in other words, exceed those of most American universities...