Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...manuscripts which are submitted in the contest may be either fiction, essays, or articles, but must not exceed 4,000 words in length. The purpose of the competition is largely to stimulate interest in the writing of English prose among college...
...very well be, however, with the rapidly growing demand for admission to college, that the two groups first mentioned may exceed 1000; and in that case the selective process must be applied to those groups as well. It will then be noted that assurance of admission can no longer be obtained by the passing of entrance tests alone. Admission to college has now become strictly a competition, in which school records, entrance examinations, character, industry, health, capacity for leadership, in short, all qualities which may be grouped under the term 'promise,' determine the competitors' success...
Groups are also being formed in Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other colleges and Universities throughout the country. The total number of students which the International Confederation will be able to entertain is limited to 400 and Harvard's quota cannot exceed...
...That this trade was reciprocal is indicated by the fact that the imports to this country were in even greater volume. In fact, South America, Central America and adjacent countries constituted one of the three great divisions in which imports to the United States exceed exports...
...which Dr. Cornelius Woelfkin had retired. Dr. Fosdick accepted the call, with the following stipulations: that membership in the congregation be open to all who accept evangelical Christianity (Baptists, Congregationalists, Methodists, Presbyterians and the like); that Baptist rites and doctrine be not insisted upon; that his salary shall not exceed $5,000; that he may continue teaching at the Union Theological Seminary, where since 1915 he has been professor of practical theology; that there be a large, new church somewhere near Columbia University (TIME, May 25). Such stipulations were accepted...