Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more; and all might have been serene except that, as he sat at the executive desk helping his wife out, he was careless again and let some highway contracts get by, which necessitated the resignation of two highway commissioners and the return to the state of $600,000 in excess profits from one contracting company alone...
From their comment it was plain that Italy's continued excess of imports over exports has at length roused II Duce to legislate frugality upon his people. He is himself, un uomo magro (a lean man), a man who is "fit." Less wine and more coarse flour will toughen jovial Italian paunches into the likeness of his own muscular diaphragm. Less gasoline will be imported, less white flour, less newspaper pulp, less superfluous building material...
...every one knows "fulsome" means "offensive from excess of praise; hence coarse, indelicate...
...Jolo, Philippine Islands. The great Moro chieftain has no children begotten of his loins, but for years he has reared three adopted daughters, the children of his brothers, and the three little princesses? Tarhata, Emme and Dayang-Dayang?have dwelt in the security of his harem. In the excess of his affection the Sultan actually had Tarhata spend five years at the University of Illinois, and she returned home with bobbed hair...
Export Worry. The current excess of U. S. imports over exports ($130,000,000 the first quarter of this year) is causing needless worry, Dr. Julius Klein, director of the Department of Commerce bureau of foreign and domestic commerce, last week told New England foreign traders. He asserts that European financial recovery although it will strengthen competition for U. S. goods, will also enable the Europeans to buy in greater and greater quantities...