Word: overtaxed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drive for high grades, to obtain draft deferment, has sent more men to the book stacks. These trends combine with a general tightening of the curriculum--one professor says the work required of college students here today is just twice what it was twenty-five years ago--to overtax the libraries...
Ignoring all advice that he must not overtax his strength, Pius XII had written the long message in his own hand...
Withdrawal from board, furthermore, does not entail book work that will string up Lehman Hall with red tape or overtax IBM machines. If the dining halls do not charge every undergraduate for the meals served before the term's open, it is inconsistent to bill everyone for the days after the term's end. Such compulsion is wrong; dining hall officials should lose no time in setting the matter right...