Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened on a co-operative basis. The girls did all the work in the hall under the supervision of a housemother. By the fall of 1931 it seemed expedient to open another co-operative hall housing 100 women. The total cost per week for both board & room does not exceed $5.40. This means a splendid fireproof modern hall and in as good a room as the campus affords. Iowa State College has always been noted for her splendid housing facilities...
...modest triumph till his death. But in reality, that debacle, and the confutation of the threadbare beliefs which he expressed in office and through the syndicated press, left him politically speaking, a discredited and pathetic figure. It is obvious that the nation has gone beyond Mr. Coolidge's exceed and will not return to it. There remains only the memory of his personality and its perfect adequacy for what America demanded of its chief executive when he was in office. How much attention historians will give to his achievements in government and how they will estimate them is a question...
...days of prosperity when the number of students who required aid was relatively smaller and the opportunities for employment were capable of expansion, it was not necessary to give much thought to this problem. At the present time, however, the demands for scholarships, loans, and employment far exceed the supply, and although everything possible is being done to enable the student of first-rate ability, character and promise to obtain an education, there are some men who doing so much work that they are deriving very little gain from college, while others have been forced to assume such a heavy...
...interested in athletics recently presented a series of ten tables comparing our present day costs with the expenditures on athletics here in 1912. His final conclusion was that if the cost of living had increased 150 per cent since 1912, the cost of conducting athletics in 1932 should not exceed 150 per cent of the 1912 costs...
...Herbert Lee Pratt of Socony-Vacuum announced that so far as possible the plan would be put into effect among the company's 30,000 employees."This program starts at 26 Broadway,"he said, "and is recommended . . . for wage earners and salaried employees. Employees whose earnings do not exceed $100 a month will not be affected." The five-day week plan of course means a smaller weekly pay check to all employees but means more men will be working, more money spent than if some men were able to save, others were dependent upon charity. Last week...