Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This pretense grew too thin even for the London Times, traditionally friendly to Japan. "Granted that the Japanese troops in Mukden exceeded instructions," rumbled London's old Thunderer, "are they to continue to exceed them without any effective check from Tokyo until the Chinese surrender or explode...
...many fields of concentration, especially in English, the instructors are continually urging students to exceed the prescribed minimum of reading and go farther afield in the direction of their particular interests. This sort of study presupposes a collection of books such as the house libraries, with their limited appropriations, can hardly hope to equal. The ambitions undergraduate, thrown back upon Widener, finds himself cut off from a magnificent collection of books in the stacks by the ponderous machinery of the delivery desk. Here the delays and uncertainty of the requisition slip system militate greatly against an effective...
...premium of a policy over $5,000. c) Old age pensions, to be effective when the worker reaches 70, would be worked out along the same lines, with the companies putting by a fund dollar-for-dollar with the employe as long as the company's share would not exceed $50 a year, d) A similar provision would be provided for unemployment insurance...
Such consideration led to these modifications: i) Bonuses will be determined by Chairman Schwab and a committee of bonusless directors; 2) Bonuses will be computed after depreciation, must never exceed 8% of net income; 3) Officers hitherto on a "small salary," such as President Grace who last year received $12,000, will henceforth receive "normal salaries"; 4) Full publicity will be given all awards...
That Capone's maximum annual income had not been found to exceed $260,000 (1925) was explained by the fact that the wily criminal conducts most of his business on a cash basis, used currency to purchase his $175,000 estate, $40,000 yacht...