Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which the pilots, once aloft, planned to drop away as excess weight...
...subsequent reign was marked by a broad humanity. He revived the gorgeous costumes and extensive retinue of his ancestors, yet lived both frugally and simply. His taste for jam and for bean sauces is still said to be marked, but he has seldom indulged in these edibles to excess. His people grew to know and love him as a dignified personage with dark, luminous eyes, and possessed of very remarkable powers of oratory. For nine years he reigned. Then his health broke down utterly...
...early in the week, because the heavy indirect taxes imposed during the year have swelled German tax receipts to and beyond the point at which it is provided in the Dawes Plan that the Allies shall be given a share in the tax surplus. Irate German editors bewailed "this excess of taxation, now to be wasted in reparations payments." Harassed, Finance Minister Reinhold sought Agent Gilbert. Between them they arrived at an amiable compromise whereby a portion of these surplus reparations will be remitted to Germany in consideration of her punctuality to date...
...everyone knows, Miss Lavinia Warren repulsed the attentions of Commodore Nutt because of his dissolute reputation, when he begged her hand in rivalry with General Thumb. The General's virtue was deemed above suspicion, though on Sept. 20, 1854, the Illustrated London News reported that "a lady, from excess of fantasy, eloped with him to the neighborhood of Guilligomach...
...consolidated for the entire country, were $494,866,776 derived from gross revenues of $3,038,560,861. Some part of these earnings will go to the Government under the recapture provision of the Transportation Act of 1920. This provides that one half of all a railroad's excess net operating income go into the General Railroad Contingent Fund to help impoverished rivals. Income becomes excess when it goes over 5¾% of the road's property valuation. What that valuation should be based upon is in dispute. The Government insists on the 1913 value of the roads...