Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excess fat may be a disease, like appendicitis or measles, and then should not be fought by diet or massaging machines (Dr. Maxmilian Kern of Chicago...
...decision was handed down in a case brought by Strong Publishing Co., publishers of the Chicago Daily News, against the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Said the Daily News: $220,806.78 excess taxes had the News paid from 1919 to 1921 because the Commissioner had refused to consider the News's Associated Press membership, the News's circulation, the News's "good will" as tangible property...
...ever planned a cheese business to live through the ages . . . after we are gone, there will be Kraft salesmen trekking the veldt of Africa, braving the snows of Siberia and battling the superstitions of Mongolia-all earnestly striving to increase sales, which by that time will be far in excess of a hundred million...
...Lebanon, Ill., one Bertram Smith, college student, chewed 45 sticks of gum, broke the world's chewing gum record, got diabetes from excess of sugar...
...doing which he endangers the lives of citizens. The fact that a man who has had but a small amount of intoxicating liquor does not realize the gravity of the situation is one of the definite evils of the whole affair. The ill that may result to oneself from excess drinking, is not half so bad as that which may happen to sober members of society. The world needs fool-killers, and if the drinker injured himself alone we need not interfere...