Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject, the Council report has had to deal with a great variety of factors; and considering its subject, a seventy page report is a fairly concise analysis. There is, however, some excess material. The recommendations concerning concentration and distribution, the tutorial system general examinations, the teaching of courses, and the House Plan are largely reiterations of any comments on facts already known to students and Faculty. But on one question, the Council's bloodhounds have struck off on a more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment...
Last week, M. Reynaud proudly claimed credit because production had increased 12%; the excess of savings deposits over withdrawals was $113,446,500; and, most important, France's gold supply had mounted from 55,808,000,000 to 87,266,000,000 francs. And last week when the Government went into the market for a six-billion franc defense loan, Frenchmen expressed their confidence in the nation's finances by oversubscribing it in a few hours, breaking all French records for an issue of that size...
...Alter the capital stock and excess profits taxes so as to allow annual declaration of stock values, and three-year carry-overs of losses against profits...
...Alter the capital stock and excess profits taxes so as to allow annual declaration of stock values, and three-year carry-overs of losses against profits...
...part of their fellow men? ... If they are too clever for us and contrive to beat us in nearly every intellectual and commercial game, in spite of inferiority of numbers and dice consistently loaded against them, we have to fall back upon our numerical preponderance and upon our excess of brute force. Then we begin to envy and to hate them, and every one of their physical, psychological or sociological divergences from our own pattern becomes obnoxious...