Word: overtaxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year the Council felt that little could be done towards any considerable revival of tutorial. While expanded enrollments overtax the staffs of most departments, such a revival must wait. However, as you pointed out, this is an issue that should not be left to die. While the patient is in an oxygen tank, somebody's got to keep pumping oxygen...
...Buenos Aires as a slap at the Argentine militarists, make him Undersecretary of State. From Washington, too, came a report that the U.S. has already ordered its first economic sanction against Argentina: in the future, Argentine ships may not use the Panama Canal. Reason: their two vessels a month overtax the Canal...
...Harvard Economics Professor Sumner Slichter boldly prophesied a postwar boom that would probably overtax U.S. productive capacity...
...Faculty are of a weak and answerable nature. The plan, they say, would "place a heavy burden on the faculty." This burden can mean nothing more than the trouble of drumming up two sets of Generals hard enough to stump a Harvard Senior. But surely it will not overtax the professional chefs to cook up just one extra set of exams for mid-years of 1942. The present Freshmen, Sophomores and Juniors will not be a problem, since they can use the three-year acceleration program...