Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really deep diver must wear a metal helmet, and either a specially-built rigid suit or else get used to one or two atmospheres excess air pressure in his breathing supply. A heavy tire may need a pressure of 100 lbs, which is not quite seven atmospheres...
...influence as the crowd that greeted "Red" Doran in 1921. Mr. Lamont seems to forget that this is not a girls' school; that there is here no great body of persons who are emotionally starved and lacking in attachment to material interests; that there are so many outlets for excess energy and emotion in Cambridge and vicinity that the real interest in pacifism and socialism will continue to be monopolized by the little group of serious thinkers who are always with us. But if they want the Union, by all means let them have...
French population increased in 1923. There were 22,000 fewer deaths and an increase of 2,000 births. The excess of births over deaths was 94,000 Thus is courage given to opponents of race suicide in France...
...Once, when investigated, he said that if he had any interest in the Guaranty Trust Co., it was so small he had forgotten it. His small holding was in excess of $700,000. ¶ Mr. Baker once bought control of Chase Bank with a view to amalgamating it with his own. But the Chase Bank prospered so mightily he never effected the merger. ¶The First National is still most humbly furnished, but its dividends are scarcely ever less than 60 per cent on $10,000,000. ¶ Mr. Baker has gone in very little for public charity. Cornell...
Tall, spare, with wiry hands and, one might almost say, wiry features, William Beebe gives an impression of great nervous vitality and never ceasing vigor. He is direct, quick-thinking, and if his manner appears at times to be fussy, it is doubtless only the manifestation of an excess of energy, and of a consciousness, which he cannot well escape, that he is a good organizer-a thing any man must be to create expeditions for exploration purposes, and not only to create them but to carry them through...