Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present makeup of Harvard which would prevent the smooth working of such a system and there is no official objection to it in principle. The existing method of assigning course credits at Harvard is archaic and unjust; the suggested plan is equitable and practical, and only an excess of inertia stands in the way of its adoption...
...factory, was earning $400,000 per year and its stock was listed on the New York Curb Exchange. "My sun was shining brightly," wrote he. "The desire to conquer new fields was running in my veins." The field he picked for conquest was Georgia's excess peach crop, which he planned to quick-freeze and market in the off season. As Depression deepened, how ever, Tom Huston's market for quick-frozen peaches froze almost as quickly as Tom Huston's peaches. By the time he decided to abandon the project, he needed cash...
According to Coach Muir, the score of the meet will depend upon the outcome of the really event. The fastest time of the Eli relay men is three minutes and 53 seconds, while the best time yet turned in by Crimson is two seconds in excess of the Yale record. Rogers and Cooke for the Yale quartet consistently swim their lap of the relay in 55 seconds. The other two members of the team, Christner and Willcox, are minute men. Since the Crimson relay swimmers average about the same speed, it is exceedingly difficult to make any prophecy...
There is no doubt that it would be unfair to present members of a House to permit other students to use the dining room and library to numbers in excess of the House capacity. It is even more unfair, however, for a group of men who have proved themselves scholastically eligible to be deprived of the many House privileges when sufficient vacancies exist. There is a solution to this perplexing problem. If these men were permitted to become associates of the Houses that have vacancies, in numbers equal only to these vacancies, and were given the use of the House...
...economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting in the existing department, and, while they're at it, pushing the statistical branches over to the Department of Commerce would be two reforms whose value would be in considerable excess of their difficulty...