Word: exceedingly
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...bill, a medical school will receive $500 for each student enrolled plus an additional $500 for each student in excess of the school's average past enrollment. Thus a premium is put on the enlargement of the student body. The total payment to any one school is not to exceed 40 percent of the total instruction costs for any year and is not to pay for instruction in research projects or the cost of any hospital's operations. For the construction of new schools and improvement of existing ones, the Surgeon General's office will have an appropriation of five...
...aliquis scholares ingrediatur tabernas . . . [No students shall enter taverns]" began Oxford's 14th Century rule designed "to further the honest pursuit of studies and to restrain the arrogance of those in whom the energies of their stomachs exceed those of their minds." Since 1355, when carousing Oxonians at the Swyndle-stock Tavern precipitated a three-day riot by hitting their host on the head with a beer tankard, it had been as scrupulously enforced as it had been ingeniously flouted. But by last week, some of the fun had gone out of Oxford's drinking. Prompted...
Last fall the Paris Foreign Ministers' Conference decided to let Germany build ships of 7,200 tons, provided the speed did not exceed 13¾knots. German shipping men sulked at these limits, asserting that they could not compete with larger, faster vessels under other flags. On grounds of military security, the British have opposed all plans to expand German shipping. The Germans claimed that the British were afraid of German competition. Said a U.S. official: "The British are hipped on the subject. You'd think we were advocating that Germany get the atom bomb...