Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of $6,000,000; 2) because the estimated return from the March 15 installments of the income tax will exceed by from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000, the expected $400,000,000; 3) be- cause the revenue from tariff duties is now expected to be in excess of the $500,000,000 estimated...
...Naval Maneuvers in the Pacific. Coincident with the movement to invoke a cloture rule in the Senate to prevent filibustering, and a rule to resscind the courtesy privilege whereby ex-members have the privilege of the floor, is an organized attempt to put an end to excess junketing...
Wheat was irregular on the expectation that the U. S. Government report of wheat on the farms, forthcoming March 8, would show an excess of about 30 million bushels over the similar surplus of last year. But with this exception, staple commodities almost all tended toward higher prices, sugar especially showing strength. Already there is talk, which may prove mere rumor, of a merger among some of our leading sugar companies...
...space for them all to live comfortably, nor resources to provide them with food. In a few centuries the world will have reached its "saturation point" but by that time of course, we may be in communication with Mars, and if Mars has any room for our excess population we may be able to emigrate to the "new world". But if scientists fall in reach our sister planet by radio or aeroplane or by shooting rockets up into the air, what will our descendants do with themselves...
These assertions are not mere overflowings of excess chauvinism, but are amply backed by grave and portentous reasons. Since 1918 the percentage of Englishmen at Oxford has fallen from 31 to 66 per cent, a drop of nearly twenty degrees. With their increase in numbers, the Americans have begun to "assert themselves in every conceivable direction" so that now the whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans...