Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...probabilities are that the Sheik was instructed to ask for a sum far in excess of $60,000, for the Berber tribes are shrewd and well know the value of their prisoners, two of whom are related to M. Theodore Steeg, French Resident General. The French, on the other hand, will never let it be known how much they pay for ransom, for their prestige is at stake, and prestige in Morocco is all important...
...several previous quarters, earnings of General Motors Corp. have exceeded those of U. S. Steel. This time, General Motors' excess over their financial rival is 55%. The current situation presents a quandary to Wall Street...
...young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby little house to read his paper. "A youth . . . looked up at him with an excess ot visible compassion. On this youth Bellard looked down and smiled, a luminous smile, a smile as bright as if he himself had been young...
Orders for the blue-bordered dinner plates bearing Harvard views which are being made by the Wedgewood Pottery have been placed far in excess of the number originally expected, and no more can be received after November 30, it has been announced by the Purchasing Agent of the University...
...transatlantic services. The Mackay radio system across the Pacific would be in competition with the Radio Corp.'s present service as far west as Japan, but, said rumor, it would not be operated essentially as a radio competitor but as a cable adjunct, a swift air channel for excess traffic which the cable cannot at present handle without delay, and as a cable auxiliary in case of submarine breakdowns...