Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study intensively the relatively bright stars of our galaxy [the Milky Way]-as individuals and not as statistical material. We want to know why it is that all the matter in the world is segregated essentially in two forms: stars and nebulae. Why are there no stars which exceed in mass a few hundred times the mass of the sun? Why is it that nearly all stars and nebulae consist of the same chemical elements in roughly the same relative proportions as we find them in the sun? Where and how do the stars generate their stupendous energies of light...
...airplanes. Next year when Heinkel comes to pay corporation taxes, it pays not in cash but in the fiat certificates. Meanwhile Heinkel may, if it wishes, use the certificates to help pay for purchases of Duralumin, rivets, engine parts. In transactions other than tax payments certificates may never exceed 40% of the purchase price, the rest to be paid in cash. What the plan really comes down to is using future taxes for present needs...
Almost 200 signatures have been obtained on the petition urging retention of Granville Hicks '23 on the faculty, its sponsors estimated last night, and hopes were expressed that they would exceed their early forecast of 250 by Friday...
...University's demonstration elementary school, pupils are taught typewriting from grades five to eight as a means of improving their English, spelling and com position. Teachers announced that children learned typing twice as fast on the Dvorak keyboard, were able to exceed 50 correct words a minute (par for professional: 70 words...
...previous merger proposals, subway bondholders would have exchanged their securities for bonds issued by a Board of Transit Control and not guaranteed by the city itself. Last year, at the November election, voters passed an amendment to the constitution allowing the city to exceed its legal debt limit by $315,000,000 to effect transit unity. And by last week, when the city offered $175,000,000 for B. M. T. alone, Chairman Dahl was glad to take it, for depression and competition from the Independent have continuously weakened his position. That leaves the city $140,000,000 in City...