Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...putting an injustice upon the immigrants. The United States Lines have withdrawn from the registration bureau and accordingly the British lines have no means of knowing how many immigrants the United States Lines will carry in a given month?cannot judge how nearly the quota is full. Therefore an excess of immigrants may be brought to this country, will have sold their homes, and may have to return with consequent hardships...
Herr Havenstein, of the Reichsbank, estimates that Germans have 2,000,000,000 gold marks ($476,400,000) abroad. He calculates that the excess of imports over exports since 1920 is 6,000,000,000 gold marks ($1,429,200,000); that capitalization of German industry amounts to 8,000,000,000 gold marks...
...other metals where ore veins reach a depth of more than 5,000 feet and the rock temperature is 115 to 120 degrees. Practically the whole population of Butte (80,000 in boom times) is dependent on the industry, and the total production of the district is now in excess of $1,500,000,000, employing as many miners as are employed in Colorado, Utah and New Mexico combined...
...Butts experimented with a galvanometer and an electric circuit on nearly 200 pairs of rats, one cancerous, the other healthy. The cancer tissue acted exactly like the positive pole, and the normal rat, the negative, in an ordinary dry-cell circuit He proved that cancerous tissue has an excess of positive charge which may be neutralized by the application of an equal negative charge. This explains why X-ray and radium treatment, in which the alpha or positive rays are screened off by a lead shield, while the beta and gamma rays (negative) are allowed to reach the diseased tissue...
...birthrate drops, especially in the professional classes of native American stock. But, thanks to the prolific immigrant, the excess of births over deaths hold its own. The highest rate for 1922 was 30.2?in North Carolina; the lowest was 18? in the State of Washington...