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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
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During the past week the great increase in the number of additional subscriptions that have been received has been one of the most gratifying results of the Endowment Fund Campaign. Many of the alumni have doubled their subscriptions, and in two instances have contributed an additional amount far in excess of their original subscriptions. This impetus has been attributed mainly to the activity of the class committees in an endeavor to gain a one hundred per cent response from their members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENDOWMENT TOTAL NOW $10,000,000 | 12/5/1919 | See Source »

...motorists to remember that on the days of football games the roads are crowded, and that therefore especial care must be exercised. All operators of automobiles are asked to allow sufficient time so that they will not have to take any chances and to anticipate delays caused by the excess of traffic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMISSION CAUTIONS MOTORISTS | 11/15/1919 | See Source »

Service men who reinstated their insurance by payment of all back premiums prior to July 25, 1919, when the decision requiring payment of only two months' premiums went into effect, upon written application to the Bureau may have any premiums paid in excess of two applied toward the payment of future premiums. For example, if after a policy had lapsed for six months, a man reinstated and paid six months' premiums instead of two, he may secure credit for four months' premiums...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW PROVISIONS MADE IN REGARD TO WAR INSURANCE | 11/14/1919 | See Source »

...fault for the high living cost? Wage earners are blaming the employers and capitalists, and the employers and capitalists are blaming the wage earners. Each accuses the other of profiteering. How can the profiteer be hunted out? He has thrived in spite of the excess profit tax. A maximum profit law would involve no end of red tape. Bringing to account those profiteers which are on the surface would be like applying a temporary remedy to vermin instead of getting at the cause of vermin. What encourages profiteering?--disorder, uncertainty, distrust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FAITH | 10/9/1919 | See Source »

...implication running through the whole of Mr. Windle's argument is that civilized man will become so immediately capable of temperance, that no restraint is needed to keep him from alcoholic excess. The attainment of this condition will at best require a long process of steady development. Throughout this process, the excesses, and resultant losses to national usefulness and well-being are bound to continue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ABRIDGMENT OF LICENSE | 6/12/1919 | See Source »

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