Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...full, certificates being given which can later be exchanged for the bonds when the final proceedings for their delivery are completed. This adjustment was brought about because subscription payments hitherto could only be received in such a way that those paying in full before June 15 on bonds in excess of $50 or 100 would be subjected to some loss of interest...
There is in his violent excess a forcing of gesture and expression and in his voice a great deal of medieval exaggeration and burlesque. It is not fine art and to the intellectual it may grow the some, yet for the good of the world must never cease to make laugh...
...have found a novel and strenuous way to bridge over the period between, say, fall tennis and Leiter cup baseball. These practical merits, confirmed by the excellent spirit of the spectators last night who evidenced neither a diletante "high blow" interest in athletics nor on the other hand an excess of violent enthusiasm insure the permanence of "the many art" as a College activity...
...Taxation of the corporate excess of interstate corporations...
Several of the fireproof buildings erected during the period and used for academic purpose have cost in excess of $400,000 each; the new Sage dining halls, now under construction, will cost between $490,000 and $500,000. It may be noted that the new dormitories erected during this period provided additional accommodations for 547 students and yield and annual gross income...