Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like most of the other growing portions of the University, the School of Business Administration has reached a point where it is obliged to limit its numbers. In fact the students now exceed the one thousand which Mr. Baker's buildings were designed to hold. Nor, if possible, would it be wise to increase the size of the classes. The instruction as given here is new, without previous experience as a guide, and time enough has not yet passed to guage the methods employed by the work of the graduates more than a few years after leaving the School...
...Japanese troops camouflaged as snow men in long white gowns crawled forward eleven miles fighting every inch of the way. The temperature was 30 below zero. Japanese scouting planes reported a force of at least 3.000 Chinese "bandits" waiting to defend Panshanhsien. Total Japanese forces in Manchuria did not exceed 25,000 last week, though, seven Japanese transports landed an unrevealed number of fresh troops at Dairen. Meanwhile in Mukden the Japanese G. H. Q. of General Shigeru Honjo feted a distinguished and most welcome guest. Guest General Jiro Minami started the Japanese push into Manchuria when he was Minister...
...Blue calico dress for Susie Bigfoot; 30 Ib. boiling beef for Hudson's; 4 pr. gumboots size 11 Lucky Strike Mining Co.; dozen phonograph records assorted Joe Slisco; rosebush knocked down deputy marshal; 2 live pigs not exceed 10 Ib.; 2 Ib. epsom salts...
...Farm Board's sales began to exceed the 5.000,000 bu. per month which it had pledged as its maximum. In order to keep its pledge and not outsell farmers and cooperatives, it re-entered the futures market and bought back enough to average its books down to the 5,000,000 bu. limit...
Notably exempt from increases were: all kinds of grains, rice, flour, meal, hay, alfalfa, straw, cotton, fresh fruits not mentioned above, potatoes, peas, beans, flaxseed, sugar beets, horses, cattle, sheep, goats, hogs, logs, fuel wood, railroad ties, excelsior, sawdust. No increases would be permitted on any carload to exceed by 10% the present maximum rates...