Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowest priced Studebaker car is the Dictator Six Club Sedan, which lists at $1,085 at the factory. The average price of the Studebaker car is in excess...
...third place, the academic career should offer to the scholar and man of science who has passed his period of probation and definitely established himself in reputation and in service, an emolument greatly in excess of that which is now usual for him. Even with the best that can be done in this regard, the scholar will still fall far short in his scale of compensation of that which is due him because of the quality of his work in society and because of its vital importance...
...period. Classical music is still the food of the sophisticated. But it is undeniable that the words "pompous" and "slow" carry the string of truth with them. The reason for this lies not in the radio, and certainly not in the "talkie". It may be fund in the amazing excess poundage of the operators themselves. With a Bayreuth baritone dangerously near the three hundred pound mark in possession of the lead role and with an unlimited heavyweight diva to repel his amorous dalliance, the best Wagnerian opera must appear either pompous and slow or considerably absurd. At present, the majority...
...Film Class A threatened to institute a receivership suit, preferring a public settlement to whatever arrangements Mr. Fox and his bankers might or might not reach. But when Mr. Fox announced that Fox Film assets were $73,000,000 in excess of liabilities, the stockholders, reassured, decided that no immediate receivership was necessary. As another sedative for stockholders, the company also last week announced that it will soon launch a $20,000,000 production schedule, the biggest it has ever undertaken...
From the cozy "Home Information Center" at Mount Holyoke, Mass., Miss Irene Roelofs went straight to the American College for Girls at Arnautkeuy, suburb of Constantinople. "One of our tasks," said she brightly last week, "is to rectify and balance the Turkish meal, which usually contains an excess of carbohydrates...