Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistaken report arose from the fact that for some time the feeling has been expressed in many quarters that the salary of the football coach ought not to exceed the maximum salary of a full professor, which at present happens to be $8,000 at Harvard College...
...most people that buying from any of these three sources will prove as heavy this year as in 1923 or 1924. The railroads were in sufficiently good physical shape last year to handle record traffic with about 10% surplus capacity unused. Automobile output is not commonly expected to exceed this year the records of the two previous years. Finally, construction also seems to be showing a sagging tendency in volume of output...
...settlement of the Anglo-French debt question will permit France to say exactly what can be done to pay off her U. S. obligations. The rate of payment, if Mr. Churchill's famous pari passu declaration (TIME, Dec. 22) is adhered to, will not, to begin with, exceed the rate at which France is repaying her British debt...
...peace of Tilsit, between Napoleon and Prussia, it was laid down that the Prussian Army was not to exceed 42,000 men. Prussia kept the treaty, but men like Scharnhorst, Clausewitz, Gneisenau, Stein, Grolmann, saw a way around it. They reorganized the Army on the basis of universal military service, which meant that they would never have an army of more than 42,000 men; but as the old classes were released, new classes were called up, and an effective trained reserve was formed...
...Germans did in 1808, so the Germans are doing today with the 100,000 men allowed them by the Versailles Treaty. It has been estimated by reliable experts that Germany has a trained army of no less than 500,000 men, although, technically, the uniformed military force does not exceed the prescribed...