Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranked among the most important in America. With an income for the purchase of works of art which has never been greater than $3,000.00 a year the museum has acquired, in addition to loans from private sources, collections whose value is estimated to be in excess of $3,000,000.00. A new building has been erected at a cost of about $1,000,000.00 and an endowment fund of equal amount has been raised. It is not seeking to become a great tomb of art. The collections on display are there for the use ond instruction of those whose...
...farmer no good. For as soon as higher prices are created for a crop, more of that crop will be produced, and the last state will be worse than the first. Rebuttal: with fair prices for all crops (including swine), farmers will not tend to produce an excess of one and an insufficiency of another...
...Passed an amendment to the Deficiency Bill (for refunds of improperly collected taxes) prohibiting any payment of tax refund in excess of $50,000 without the O. K. of the Comptroller General. The point: to make it harder for "the rich" to get refunds, as Comptroller General McCarl is notoriously swamped with work...
...Daniel Webster was sent to the Senate from Massachusetts until he died. He was loose, drank habitually to excess, did not pay his debts, but Massachusetts had a right to send him. And one could multiply such instances a hundredfold...
...University might presuppose something very much akin to such unanimity. Especially unwarrantable would the contribution appear since the Fund is designed to support a Committee Meeting to plant "the religion of Jesus" in India, a meeting "which makes demands upon the intelligence and the abilities of Federation members in excess of any other meeting so far held-so very beautiful, so very potent is the idea of an international student gathering in the land of the Brahmins...