Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of war, each colonel contribute all his assets in excess of $5,000 to the State for defense and serve at a salary of $1 a year...
...uncut Hamlet, Margaret Webster's fine direction gives life and movement to a congested, multiform play. If the production has faults, they spring from excess of theatricality, not from taking Shakespeare too reverently. As Falstaff, Actor Evans has gusto and wit, though not quite enough of the knight's profound worldliness. And-perhaps surprisingly-he is better as the fat roisterer than he was as the melancholy Dane...
Later, after a return to England, he lived in the Pyrenees. There he worked off excess energy by scaling cliffs, writing novels (The Olive Field, Rainbow Fish) and left-wing pamphlets, tilling steep fields with farmers. When the war began, Bates organized the mountaineers into scouting parties. When volunteers from other countries joined the Loyalists, he helped organize the International Brigade...
Concretely, the election changed the farm picture only for flue-cured tobacco.* By voting No, tobaccomen rejected Secretary Wallace's offer to fix a rigid quota for each seller, levy a penalty of one half the market price for excess sales. By voting No, they also ruled out loans on whatever portion of their 1939 crop they may keep off the market. Unaffected by the Election was the "voluntary" half of the farm program-acreage restriction which growers of all three crops make in return for soil conservation payments and other cash benefits...
...committee is planning to extend the campaign to alumni, and any money in excess of $10,000 will be used to provide for other student refugees in addition to those awarded scholarships...