Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nanking which was most extensive last week, seemed only an essentially minor disaster in the wreck of their spiritual work. The typical Christian missionary places his loyalty to China second only to that for his homeland; and his concern for the welfare of the Chinese is apt to exceed the care he takes of his family or himself...
...interest your readers to know that the Mark Twain Society has inaugurated a contest for the best letter on the subject: "Why I Like Mark Twain." Letters should reach us by Aug. 1, and must not exceed 300 words in length. A prize of $5 is offered...
...subject suitable for essay treatment may be selected, the whole not to exceed 2500 words in length. Theses written for courses will not be accepted, according to the announcement of the Union management...
Meantime, aided by statisticians, prophets indulged in prophesying. The year just closing had been neither a bad year nor a boom. The sales volume, both in dollars and units (cars), would exceed even record-smashing 1925.* That seeming certainty, after the gloomy predictions of last spring, augured well indeed for 1927. The new record would result chiefly from large gains by a few big companies, but gains made at no expense to the small. After any bad year most of the companies set out to recuperate by developing new lines or by cutting prices. This year Detroit anticipated only...
...water-dwelling member of the boa-constrictor family.* Far more ill-tempered than its cousins, the African boas and the pythons of Africa, Asia and Australia, it is the largest snake in the New World, third largest in all the world (after the reticulated and Indian pythons, which sometimes exceed ten yards in length...