Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been such an excess of everything including silence, during the past week that Joe Forecast, as an object lesson to the world at large, contents himself with a few plain words...
...Cantonese Super-Tuchun, Chang Kaishek, boasted last week that his conquests now embrace six provinces [in the Yangtze valley] with an area of over half a million square miles and a population in excess of 170,000,000. These docile millions he conquered with an army probably not exceeding...
...answer to the woman's thought, all the assembled stamps had been thrown into a fire, the conflagration would not have been great, but the resultant damage would have been in excess of 20 million dollars. Famed collectors everywhere had sent their collections; the President of the exhibition himself, Charles Lathrop Pack, beady-eyed and white-mustachioed, exhibited his fine group of early Victoria stamps (limited to the issues with the half-length and enthroned portraits of the Queen), a collection which formed the basis for a monograph which won a gold medal for philatelic research at a London...
...Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician, figured that a newborn baby is worth $9,333 to a family whose income is $2,500 yearly. Such parents spend $10,000 raising the child to the age of 18. Then, if it is a boy, he may be expected to earn (in excess of his expenditures) $29,000 the rest of his life. At 25, through elimination of less efficient competitors, his future income will total $32,000. But if he lives to 50, he will earn on the average only $17,500 the balance of his years...
...production, his own notions of the play and the first performances, sound more like a casual account of deciding to play gold instead of tennis than a great actor planning to enter on his greatest artistic triumph. All this is somewhat disappointing; and it may be that, in an excess of caution Mr. Barrymore is hiding behind this casualness. Still, it has a natural air; and, although the reader might expect soul-stirring revelations, his Anglo-Saxon temperament is vaguely relieved to find that this artist leave such things to the imagination and keeps his stirrings deep within...