Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first issue of the "Harvard Business Review" will be put on sale tomorrow. It was originally intended to publish it about two weeks ago but the subscriptions for this first issue, which already total about 5000, were so far in excess of the number expected that it was necessary to postpone its publication date...
...wrath, and it readily found a visible symbol in the person of Judge Landis, high commissioner of baseball. Upon his head an angry and tumultuous crowd of between 5000 and 8000 poured invective after invective, and if Judge Landis escaped without bodily harm, it was due to no excess of charity on the part of the crowd that surrounded...
...Heaven forfend that we should give our days and nights to the study of grammar, or the practice of "English as she is spoke". Affectation can be carried to excess as well in the use of a language as in any other species of human thought and action; super-conceits are only ridiculous. But it does seem as though even leaving English. A and the "red-cap" out of the question the average person, be he litterateur, scientist of philosopher, should be willing both to listen and speak with some degree of care. More than that, he must...
...unfortunately, some armed bandits broke loose in the Siberian territory, who retired when pursued by troops of the F. E. R. of S., into the neutral zone of Japan. In an excess of zeal (police take notice) the Republic's troops followed them only to meet with Japanese soldiers, charges of trespassing and a liberal sprinkling of bullets. The skirmish of Spasskoye is said to have hastened the negotiations of the Conference and favorable action is expected shortly inasmuch as the Ghita demands are reported to have found favor with the delegates of the Mikado...
...eliminate excess work it is planned to have the wagon called not only at the Law School and Divinity School dormitories, the Yard, and the Freshman dormitories, but also it will stop at the houses on Bow and Mt. Auburn streets to make further collection...