Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON cannot see that the rotating policy will add benefits in excess of its disadvantages to Harvard football. Admitting that it may be desirable to have some flexibility in the Harvard schedule, it would seem that the three or four dates supplied under the old system are sufficient...
...Yale in providing them with fewer seats for the Cambridge games than the Yale authorities provide our graduates for Bowl games; that a larger Stadium would not attract a larger "public" crowd; and finally that the cost of enlarging the Stadium could easily be paid for out of the excess profits within a period of ten years without in any way changing the present "athletics-for-all" policy...
...purchased on the proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that she had made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying tax on the 10% that still comes to her on every record sold...
Permit me to direct your attention to a situation which affects at least ninety per cent of the undergraduate body but of which few indeed give evidence of being aware. I refer to the heating and ventilating of upper Widener. With a conscientiousness altogether in excess of the results achieved, the autocratic or powers that be maintain throughout the library a temperature of seventy eight degrees Fahrenheit. This every one knows is ten degrees more than the maximum for comforable living. Why it is considered permissible in the library I cannot imagine. Yet the fact remains...
...Excess Baggage. This romance of a tightrope walker proved agreeable. Vaudeville slang and another peek into the no longer private lives of stage people were foremost factors. The hitherto useless wife of the tight-rope man suddenly became a famous movie star. She went slack on her marital obligations, one of which was to stand at the stage end of the tightrope when her husband took his famed slide from the balcony. In her absence, he took the slide (in full view of the audience) and crashed. She hurried out to pick up the pieces; love bloomed anew...