Word: excessions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...building situation is considered, by most men, to be authoritative, and, last week he stated: "Current conditions lead me to the conclusion that there should be a temporary breathing spell in construction [of office buildings, hotels, apartment houses] throughout the U. S. . . that accommodations may not become abnormally in excess of demand. I wish to make it plain that I do not look for any radical drop in the volume of building. . . ." Owners of properties already constructed cried acclaim; owners of undeveloped real estate were dismayed. Said Metropolitan President Haley Fiske, knowing Mr. Straus' wide influence: "I am glad...
Exchange of seeds with botanic gardens and amateurs all over the world has increased greatly; at present the seeds received are greatly in excess of those sent out, as 6,000 species were acquired last year, and some 2,000 sent out. This picking and exchanging seed, with the necessary correspondence, is a further burden for which no financial provision is made, as there is as yet no office force for any clerical work. There is material here for unlimited publication on the habits of hardy plants, many now blooming for the first time in this country...
...Heard Representative Celler of New York cry that themembers of the House and Senate "drink to excess." Next day, he refused to take back his statement and re-emphasized...
...eating his Sunday dinner. Quantity, however, in connection with such feats, is universally honorable. The remarkable thing about it is that either of its extremes are short-cuts to glory. A well-known instance of the way a man wrote his name into history by the alternative of excess is that which came to pass one day in the German city of Rotenburg. General Tilly was about to sack the place when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town...
Costs. The budget has been thrown out of balance and the Government's expenses for the year were last week $421,345,000 in excess of revenue.* As an example, the cost of poor relief mounted $29,000,000 beyond expectations. The miners themselves lost $325,000,000 in wages; and are now forced to accept $12 a week and less per man. The loss on curtailed coal production was $480,000,000. Of losses to allied industries the leading railroads suffered $125,000,000, shipping $50,000,000 more; and the steel industry was so hard hit that...