Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HAMPSHIRE: By vote of 210 to 81 the House of Representatives passed a bill prohibiting daylight saving, and setting a fine not to exceed $500 for violation...
...giant armadillo, recovered from the Pliocene deposits of southern Arizona by Dr. J. W. Gidley, of the United States National Museum, has been brought to Washington and mounted. He is seven feet eight inches long, stands three feet high, and his shell weighs half a ton. Modern armadillos rarely exceed two feet in length...
...suffer from the aggression of others. If as a young growing nation it was not a prey to outsiders during a century of world exploitation by European powers, it scarcely seems likely that it will be such at a time when its resources, both material and in man-power, exceed those of any other country; at a time, too, when these powers have just been very amply demonstrated...
...deficit will be cut 1) because of payments made by the Shipping Board and the Navy Department of $6,000,000; 2) because the estimated return from the March 15 installments of the income tax will exceed by from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000, the expected $400,000,000; 3) be- cause the revenue from tariff duties is now expected to be in excess of the $500,000,000 estimated...
...annual awards will be made for the first time next fall, for the best studies, not to exceed 20,000 words, on the subjects suggested or approved by the committee in charge. Employes of banks, students in schools of commerce and law, and in departments of economics of colleges and universities, and all students registered in the American Institute of Banking except officers of banks are eligible to compete for these prizes. Among the suggested subjects are the advisory relations of trust companies with their customers, the reduction of litigation relating to wills, trust companies as fiscal agents for corporations...