Word: overtaxed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signature or decision were piling up, His Majesty expressed a desire to convoke the Privy Council and appoint a regency pro tempore. Cautiously the Royal physicians sought to divert the sick man from this purpose, fearing that the excitement and pomp of a meeting of the Privy Council might overtax his weakened heart. The patient remained adamant. Therefore the text of a suitable Order in Council was speedily drafted, members of the Privy Council assembled in the Audience Chamber adjoining His Majesty's bedroom, and the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir William Joynson-Hicks took...
...Stevens has announced that the running exercise for the crew men would continue three times a week during the mid-year period, but that the distance would be shorter in order not to overtax the runners. After examinations, work will begin on the machines and in the tank in the Newell Boat House, and the running periods will be kept up as usual although the exercise will not be as strenuous...
...Antecedent. "Our Government overtaxed its people last year and we find a surplus on hand of $350,000,000. It is perfectly obvious that no Government has the right to overtax its people...
...substance of the majority of the lectures which are given could be got by the student far better and in far less time from books which are readily available, and most lecturers, in attempting to 'cover the ground' in a given number of lectures, greatly overtax the capacity of their students by assimilating by ear long chains of fact and argument. There is a case for special lectures given by the expert for the purpose of expounding and testing a new discovery; there is a case for the popular lecture as a means of arousing attention; but there...