Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Corferrol, a compound of the extract of the cortex of suprarenal glands with iron and pyrol, experimentally applied to the destruction of cancerous growths in animals by smothering the growths with excess oxygen...
...Excess of income of the Harvard Athletic Association over 1927-28 was $217,171.92 last year, according to a financial report made to the Board of Overseers by H. L. Shattuck '01, Treasurer of the University...
Including the excess of the year 1928-29 the Harvard Athletic Association has a surplus of $611,111.62. Five hundred thousand dollars of this total will be applied to the completion of the indoor athletic building now under construction. The new construction will cost $1,200,000 and the Athletic Association has gifts totalling $700,000. The balance remaining in the Athletic Association's surplus will be $111,111.62. Of the gifts made to the Harvard Athletic Association for the erection of the new gymnasium $250,000 was given with the understanding that $200,000 would be paid...
...letter received yesterday by all Juniors applying for double rooms in Dunster House, it was revealed that there has been a great excess of applicants for this type of room rather than for single suites. Since there are in Dunster House 110 single suites and 62 double ones, and so many more members of the Class of 1931 have applied together, it was asked whether or not room-mates will be willing to live in adjacent rooms rather than outside the Houses...
Production. Aside from Sir Henri and the Shell-Socony war, oilmen were chiefly interested in the perennial problem of overproduction. When 1929 began, there were in storage 625,000,000 barrels of crude oil, representing excess of production over consumption. Production during 1929 totaled about 200,000 barrels a day over consumption, so that at the end of the third quarter the 600,000,000 barrel excess had increased to 675,000,000 barrels, or about enough for eight months consumption. During 1928 oil wells produced about 900,000,000 barrels; during 1929 the production will reach an even billion...