Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...report stated that the company's volume of sales in 1924 set a new high record, in which case they must have been in excess of the 1923 gross sales of $138,473,340. Owing to "severe competition," however, the company omitted the gross figures for last year...
...That a certain amount of war material in excess of treaty limits was discovered...
...caissons, in diving suits or diving bells, they are subject to great air pressure. Under these circumstances, nitrogen goes into the tissues of the body. When the external pressure is released, as by coming out of a caisson or being raised to the surface of the water, the excess nitrogen in human tissues tends to form bubbles. If one of these occurs in the spinal cord or brain it may cause paralysis or death. If they form in the right half of the heart they are forced into the lungs where they form a frothy mixture, interfering with circulation...
...under pressure, to extend the time limit for the com- plete suppression of opium production from 10 to 15 years, but the period was virtually to begin forthwith. Britain would and could not agree. She wanted the period to begin from a time when China had effectively suppressed the excess growth of the opium poppy and so removed the danger of smuggling. In other words, progressive restriction on the cultivation of the poppy was not practical international politics until the smuggling danger had been removed...
Against these expenses, the Government secured $195,072,295 from the railways for expenditures in excess of requirements; this, with other items, brings the estimated total cost to the Government down...