Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whiteside finally was cornered and admitted that he was thinking of the problem that surrounded the selection of the one passenger in the Varsity boat -- the lone member of the crew who doesn't work his way. To the ordinary observers the little coxswain is simply so much excess baggage, probably chosen because his weight is nearest the zero of any of the contenders. They admit that he's the only member of the crew who can see where he is going, and the only one who isn't looking at life backwards during a race. But that just about...
...Central Committee which will then proceed to group all applicants according to price and type of suite applied for. These applications will be set against the number of suites available in all seven Houses at the respective prices in order to determine in what price ranges there is an excess of applicants. In each price range in which there is an over-application it will be necessary to determine which men are to be accepted, and, in general, scholastic standing will play a large part in the process of selection. This selection will be made before any assignments to particular...
...existence rather than to try to spirit it off the market with cash. Last month the House passed (251-to-115) the bill to assign each planter a bale quota based on his past production and then tax him 50% of the market value of each bale ginned in excess of that quota. Prime purpose of the legislation was to hold the 1934 cotton crop down to 10,000,000 bales...
...Harvard Herald have been dickering with President Conant over the purchase of Memorial Hall, which they intend to use for the home of their new enterprise. Since the editors believed that the highest price the President could possibly demand for the Hall would not be in excess of fifteen dollars, they were at a loss to know what to do with the remaining five hundred thousand masumas which have been pledged by the "wealthy Boston sources...
...restraint with which Lederer handles it, a restraint upon which the whole structure of the film turns, and which must have been difficult of attainment. He is required to pass his well-loved wives around among his friends, to lose a wife, to murder, and to suffer excess of thought; through all these turns with lady Fate, he avoids heroics, and at the same time veers away from the equally dangerous wall of intellectually squalid sentimentality which might so easily block his performance; he covers a middle-ground of mindless, emotionally dulled savagery which is absolutely genuine. The Eskimos...