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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been attended to promptly and satisfactorily and because they have recognized that the society is being run on sound business principles. There is every indication that last year's success but foreshadows a greater success this year. The sales of the first week this year are $2500 in excess of those of the first week last year. It is certainly to be hoped that the business of the whole year shall be equally prosperous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/7/1891 | See Source »

...arranged around the walls of the room, and the table was set before them. Their bill of fare was also very simple, consisting mostly of cheese, bread, meat and wine. They were hearty eaters, but through the restraint of their out-door life and exercise they seldom drank to excess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Seymour's Lecture on "Life in Homeric Times." | 3/26/1891 | See Source »

...rate of interest. the total income for the year has been $851,080.84, excluding $162,225.49 received in sundry gifts for immediate use. The funds available for use during the year have thus been altogether $1,013,306.33. The total expenses were $1,028,654.65, or $15,348.32 in excess of the income. The gifts to form new funds or increase old ones have amounted to $277.282.03. The total amount given to the University during the year was thus $439,507.52. The total of the funds controlled by the Corporation on July 31, 1890 was$7,121,854.96, against...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Financial Condition. | 2/10/1891 | See Source »

...Grave," though its plot excels those of the stories already mentioned, is slightly inferior to them in execution. There is an excess of narrative in the third person, unbroken by the conversation needed to give ease and variety to the story. In other respects it is satisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 2/9/1891 | See Source »

...paid for the best seats. We cannot help being struck with so admirable a method of raising money for the crew, and feel bound to recommend it to both our Glee Club and Crew managements. There is no doubt that the old way of getting money is carried to excess, the subscription method is a burden, and ought to be done away with; but money must be obtained in some way or other. We have a Glee Club and other musical clubs, and there is every opportunity offered us to get up a successful concert in Boston. It is absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/19/1891 | See Source »

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