Word: overplus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...apart: there was the time of '76-'77 in which the Lampoon was shot forth on its joyous way, the time of '86-'87 in which the Monthly was launched with high hopes and ambitions, and the time of '95-'96 in which again there seemed to be an overplus of writers so brilliant that editors in chief could hardly set their standards too high. Between these periods the spirit of literature has sometimes seemed to nap, and the offerings to the editors have not seemed bursting with the promise of a new epoch of letters in America...
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