Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laughed at the new promoters with indifferent scorn. He said they could not pos-sibly make money if they gave $500,000 to the fighters. He calculated that $600,000 would be the maximum receipts under most favorable circumstances, whereas expenses, including the $500,000 would approach, if not exceed, $1,000,000. Mr. Raymond is figuring on $2,000,000 receipts...
...none of these. In-deed, the Memorial clock has the distinction of keeping not even it's own time consistently. Gaining twenty minutes in three hours is a world's record which not even Jules verne could equal--but ordinarily, from day to day, its little variations do not exceed five or ten minutes...
...provision of the act in question was the so-called "recapture" clause. By this clause the Interstate Commerce Commission, after fixing freight rates and a fair rate of return on the assessed valuation of each road, may "recapture" one-half of the earnings of any road which exceed such a "fair return." The rate of a fair return has been fixed by the Commission at 5.75% per annum. The moneys received by the Government under this provision of the Act are placed in a fund from which loans are made and equipment leased to railways, the purpose being to bolster...
...believe that modern war is not an efficient instrument of protection. It seems likely that long-range guns, aerial bombs, both explosive and gaseous, and hunger blockades would so develop that the slaughter behind the lines would exceed that at the front...
...manuscripts for the Union Prize Essay Competition must be in the hands of the Graduate Secretary by Monday, January 14. Essays must not exceed 2,500 words in length. The first prize is $100, the second $50. The Graduate Treasurer will give any information desired...