Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seen service in only one important contest, the first Toronto game. In that New Year's Eve clash, Newell at times stood up admirably under the fire of the Canadian assault. The outcome of tonight's game depends largely on his performance; and it is possible that he may exceed expectations under the onus of his responsibilities...
Total stock to be issued will probably not greatly exceed $1,000,000,000 in par value. But the offering price of the new stock may well be $150 per share, the same U. S. common which once was water and which the late great Judge Elbert H. Gary had already expanded by a 40% stock dividend shortly before he died in 1927. The new capitalization also removes the last traces of Carnegie; for although he had provided that some of the bonds should never be retired, most of the holders of the special Carnegie bonds have agreed to cash...
...machines, and especially of electric refrigerators. Total U. S. copper consumption in 1927 was 834,550 tons, or 14.15 pounds of copper per person. With the automobile industry planning to produce 3,000,000 cars and trucks during the first six months of 1929, with 1929 building expected to exceed 1928, and with various proposed railway electrification projects, copper demand should steadily increase...
Said he: "One will be able to speak of a real solution of the Reparations problem only if it does not exceed Germany's economic capacity-in other words, if it enables us to fulfil our obligations by our own power and without endangering the standard of life of our people...
...more thoroughly than 98% of his contemporaries, the titles of host, amateur scientist, clubman (20 of them), with all of which he is quaintly press-shy. His fortune has come from public utilities, which he developed, not as a sportsman but as a shrewd businessman, and which may now exceed a round hundred millions. He lives at Glen Cove, Long Island, and in the Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, town house of the late Elbert H. Gary, which he purchased last spring...