Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barham: (above mentioned) : "I think it is the duty of the Government to do something. . . . Don't you think it rather childish, to put it mildly, to expect the Red Cross with $15,000,000 to handle the whole problem, the damage bill alone of which will exceed $500,000,000? ... I don't know whether Mr. Coolidge is interested in these flood victims or not. . . . I don't recall reading where he has said a word about them since he went to Rapid City. . . . Mr. Hoover has done and is doing...
...Application of this ratio in such a way that the combined total of cruiser plus destroyer tonnage would not exceed 550,000 for the U. S., 550,000 for Britain and 330,000 for Japan...
...almost six feet tall. Mrs. Nation in 1906 spoke in the Church that I was pastor of in Perry, Okla. I am 5 ft., 9. Mrs. Nation was not as tall as I. I think you were about right in saying she weighed 175 pounds. She was not to exceed...
...saloons (TIME, Feb. 7, 21), that when he motored out to Hastings, Sussex, last week, past fields of primroses all in saffron bloom, Britons wondered if His Royal Highness would not tread a measure with some buxom Sussex wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda, one of these good girls would have obliged. But he, a nonchalant prince, preferred...
...barrister Baron Blanesburgh recommended, after investigation thousands of dole cases that the principle of the original 15-week limit be reapplied, after having been allowed to lapse during the recent acute unemployment crisis now gradually passing. Hereafter, it is recommended, dole payments should be made during, but not to exceed, 13 weeks per half year...