Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chevrolet Intentions. Said Chevrolet's own President W. S. Knudson: "We of the Chevrolet Motor Co. are preparing for our biggest year. Plans already in motion for the year contemplate the production of more than 1,000,000 units, several thousand in excess of the 1927 record...
...Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency toward spending in excess of resources which has recently characterized public finance in Germany...
...sensual world, an aching entity in which the weariest efforts of the will can not arouse a thought. And it is suggested that if make them the principal subject of con-efforts of the will can not arouse a versation, these attempts of the weather to excite interest with excess and variations, can be discouraged...
Commenting on the success of the project Mr. Morse made this statement. "At first Harvard had planned that if 300 dozen dishes could be sold, the preliminary expense of making copper plates and sketches could be covered, but sales have run so far in excess of this estimate that the profits will pay for Harvard's own equipment of plates and perhaps more...
...London. The arch-fanatic is Richard Bird, three years ago imported from England to play The Babe in Havoc. Later he supplied a brilliant Poet MarChbanks in Shaw's Candida. The faintly Galsworthian throes of this London hit give him opportunity to squirm and ogle with an excess of youth every time he sits down in a chair. The most finished performance is supplied by Ann Andrews, brought surprisingly into the second act to give the younger female fanatics the benefit of her life story. Her beauty and the sure delicacy of her acting lend a brief element...