Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amount which France now owes to the U. S. is in excess of $4 billion. The present plan proposed to pay off this sum on much the same terms as those granted to Britain at the beginning of 1923?that is, over a period of 67 years. Two important features, not included in the British debt settlement, were suggested...
...police station, Corvi was identified as a carpenter whom his victim had often helped modestly in a financial way, when 'drinking to excess had lost him a job. He was said to be unconnected with any political party and it was generally supposed that his crime was the product of a diseased mind. Nevertheless, he stated that he had killed Casalini "to avenge my brother in idealism, Matteotti," murdered by Fascisti three month ago (TIME, June...
Author' Timmermans just shouts aloud, in an excess of good spirits, that life at Mother Nature's breast is a glutton's feast for body, mind and soul. It is grand philosophy, stirring tonic for city-pale people. Author Timmermans is Belgian, his gusto unfeigned. The illustrator, Anton Pieck, contributes fetching garnitures, one per page...
...carpenter who drank to excess, lost...
Increases in freight loadings over the preceding week occurred in all sections except the Northwestern. Except for the latter and the Eastern Allegheny sections, loadings were in excess even of 1923 record figures...