Word: exceeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raises 90 bales of cotton, steps up and promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton market fails to rise, John...
...planning his quiet Condor, President Damon knew that 70% of airplane noise comes from the propellers after tip speed passes 850 ft. per second. He began by gearing down the Condor's three-bladed propellers so that at cruising speed, tip speed does not exceed 670 ft. per second. Next he insulated with rubber the nine attaching bolts of each Cyclone motor. He then proceeded to the problem of the fuselage...
...Hall, it has been moving from one stage to another. Funds are lacking with which to buy or erect a permanent hall, but the remodeling of the Big. Tree pool seems to be within the economic possibilities of the Dramatic Club. The cost of converting the building should not exceed three or four thousand dollars, and would result in a theatre seating three or four hundred persons. The two squash courts could be used for a work room and social hall respectively...
...large quantities at one per cent interest is the solution to the present financial crisis," asserted S. E. Harris '20, lecturer on Economics, in a speech in the Lowell House Common Room last night under the auspices of the Harvard Inquiry. "This, if it is not allowed to exceed the amount of private deposits, is not inflation. It is merely issuing paper on the money which people have hoarded in Banks, or, if you prefer, it is exchanging one kind of money for another...
...lack of practical classroom experience of most of these students. In the Mathematics departments several men in their second year of graduate work have been selected, and there are at present in Mathematics A some who have scarcely attained their majority. While it is true that these men may exceed most of their contemporaries in maturity and initiative, the stringent requirements for an advanced degree necessarily restrict the time at their disposal for teaching duties...