Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekly quizzes given to the non-honor men for almost the whole length of the year? And, worse, why must those men who have shown themselves capable of honor work in the self-vaunted most difficult undergraduate course be afflicted with regular bi-weekly hour exams? The excess study required by the average man in the course over that generally given with a full course is proverbial; the conference men find this load increased by reading in which they may have little or no interest...
...varsity players work on one of our six practice boards. . . . There is a circle about one foot round they have to serve in. . . . My players must never grandstand a play, never make the kill when a soft accurate shot will suffice. Energy must be saved. No false steps, no excess movements. No jerks, no wild swinging and no brute strength. Just the cool calculating mind working the system, analytical, severe, fast, cruel and deadly...
...their relationship to each other." For example he cited the commonest British mouse-flea (Ctenophthalmus agyrtes). "A calculation . . . to find among them two absolutely alike in the number and position of the bristles on the body arrives at the amusing figure of many million billions, a figure certainly in excess of that of the whole flea-population of Great Britain, and tantamount to proving that there are no two specimens alike...
Agriculture: "We advocate . . . effective control of crop surpluses so that our farmers may have the full benefit of the domestic market . . . enactment of every constitutional measure that will aid the farmer to receive for basic farm commodities prices in excess of cost of production." Will Platformer Palmer define "effective control"? Will he specify "every constitutional measure...
...Enactment of the Glass-Steagall bill. By substituting U. S. bonds for commercial paper as Federal Reserve currency coverage, this measure freed excess gold behind paper money, helped the Reserve to resist foreign raids on the dollar. It also opened the way for the Reserve to buy U. S. bonds wholesale, pump credit back to member banks...