Word: exceeding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...fact that the President does not have to coerce the Senate in this unsurpation of legislative power; slavery is always more shameful when it is willing rather than forced. And if this were an isolated case, we should merely have to reprove the Senate for letting the executive exceed his authority. But there are other examples of this kind of forced appropriation, and the appropriating power of Congress is in grave danger. Roosevelt plays the same game with the Passamaquoddy project, the Gila Dam, and the Florida ship canal. It is quite clear that Congress is expected to finish whatever...
...yesterday, when the Columbia Broadcasting System announced that it will give the Communist Party free time on the air. It is evident that the radio has assumed a place of political importance at least equal to that of the daily newspaper, and an impartiality whose scope and influence far exceed the best local press organs. At the bottom of this policy of non-partisanship lies the Federal Communications Commission, a body, which, if its present principles are maintained permanently, will do more for the success of democratic government than any possible mechanical reform...
...responsible for scores of deaths at Gauley Bridge. They charged that damage suits were filed by some men proved not to have worked in the tunnel and by others who worked only an hour or two. According to the apologists, the death list from various diseases did not exceed 50 out of some 2,000 workers...
...roughly half a billion dollars less than the estimate set two years ago for the end of fiscal 1935. However, because of the omission of WPA expenditures from the 1937 budget, it is likely that in June 1937 the actual debt of the U. S. will exceed the President's estimate...