Word: exceeded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of spectators been large enough to make the receipts exceed the expenses by $1,000, the managers would have been opposed to undertaking another Freshman race; but as the attendance was insignificant, in the face of the most favorable...
...essays must not exceed in length the amount of twenty-five printed pages of the North American Review...
...Junior Class should have two hours of elective work and six Themes required of its members, in excess of the number of hours allotted to Seniors; and it is therefore a pleasure to learn that the former burden has been removed. Henceforward the work of the Juniors need not exceed twelve hours of recitation a week, with the usual margin of one hour to compensate for any unavoidable irregularity. We are also glad to know that this new regulation is carried into immediate effect; therefore it will now be necessary to specify what courses it is intended to drop...
...According to his promise he appeared the next day and took me to drive in his own private carriage; and all through my stay nothing could exceed the kindness which he showed me. One rather peculiar circumstance that I remarked was, that he would never allow me to come to his house, not even letting me walk home with...