Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despatch announced, it has issued an order exempting from the provisions of the three per cent immigration law, students from foreign countries coming to the United States to study in American schools, colleges and universities. Under the present immigration law, the annual quota of each foreign country must not exceed 3 per cent of the total number of its nationals which the last census gives as residents of the United States. In the long run, the enforcement of this rule is bound to keep out of the United States some of the prospective students who, by all accounts, are coming...
Less than a generation ago Simon Newcomb, one of America's foremost mathematical astronomers, estimated the diameter of the Galactic System to be not less than 7000 light years and later ventured to state that as an outside limit it could not likely exceed 20,000 light years. Dr. Shapley's researches have developed newer methods of determining stellar distances which leads him to the conclusion that the real dimensions of the Milky Way must exceed Newcomb's earlier estimate nearly fifty fold. Recent investigations in physics will have a very important bearing on certain cosmic problems. These swiftly changing...
...privileges of the Union while in Cambridge, with the view of making the Union, as far as possible, the headquarters of graduates when in Cambridge. These graduates may apply at the Graduate Manager's office for a guest card; but in case their use of the clubhouse is to exceed three weeks, they must take out non-resident memberships...
...definitely decided to put a limit on the number of men it will admit to the School next year. Not more than 300 men will be accepted as members of the entering class. This means practically that next year's first-year class will not be allowed to exceed in size the class admitted this year, which numbered...
...will be divided justly among all classes and all individuals--and are continually failing. By levying upon corporations a flat tax of ten percent on profits--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate up profit--with certain exemptions--and applying a progressive tax rate to profits which exceed a stipulated percentage of the capital investment the Government has attempted to levy a tax on surplus profits which would not be felt by industry. But this excess profits tax is not now suitable to business conditions...