Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...starting south today the University wishes the best of success. Win or lose, there will be no wild excess or somber gloom. The frenzy of intercollegiate rivalry is no more; in its place the new love of a good clean game has appeared...
...exceed $13,870,000,000. This in part, explains why we are borrowing now "only $3,000,000,000 and oversubscriptions," instead of the $10,000,000,000 which we had expected to borrow. Another factor contributing to the same result is the underestimate of the income and excess profit taxes. We supposed that each would yield about $1,200,000,000. The best present estimate is that the total of the two taxes will be from $500,000,000 to $1,000,000,000 greater than that. Hence we do not have to borrow so much money...
...Germany not more than 10 or 11 percent. The United States, on the basis of these reduced war expenditures, will be raising 45 percent through taxes. This does not, of course, include loans to the Allies. Neither does it include the larger estimate of the yield of income and excess profit taxes. If these be taken into account, it is not unreasonable to suppose that half of our national expenses for the current fiscal year we shall meet out of taxation...
Swindling under these conditions comes close to treason. And if a foreign grocer is deprived of his rights to sell because he charges a few cents in excess of the legal rate for sugar, the capitalist who turns sorely needed funds into private pockets must not expect to retain his power over finance. Loyalty and service are the tests or survival...
...lectures in the Military Science courses which have been scheduled to be held in the New Lecture Hall are to be given in Sanders Theatre. Memorial Hall is heated by the excess heat from the kitchen and, accordingly, the opening of Sanders Theatre for use as a lecture hall will not involve the consumption of more fuel than is ordinarily used in the building...