Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earth, the effect of excess radiation received during sunspot maxima is to evaporate more water, bring on heavier rainfall, and thus paradoxically make the average temperature slightly cooler than during sunspot minima. The eleven-year sunspot cycle has been traced in the growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb...
...Above 90° the naked body begins to sweat. The flow of blood to the skin, bringing excess heat to be radiated, may be five or six times normal. Even so, if the subject exercises, he may not be able to eliminate heat fast enough and his temperature may rise four or five degrees...
...pools to acquire gasoline from independent refiners at artificial prices; 2) selling gasoline to jobbers under long-term contracts in which price would be determined by the average of the spot market prices published in the Chicago Journal of Commerce and Platt's Oilgram; 3) taking "distress" (i.e., excess) gasoline off the market (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). Result, according to the jury, was severe losses to jobbers and independents...
...flight ended in a glide with tail touching in a swimming motion several yards before the fish plopped down and submerged. In landing from all flights the tail touches first. When making a maximum-speed, straightaway, low-altitude run from a danger area the speed achieved is apparently in excess of 30 knots...
...been placed in escrow, the rest payable when the F.C.C. makes its decision; that KFJZ was being bought by his wife, but that under Texas law husband and wife share jointly in estate and income; that Ruth Googins Roosevelt is worth $99,500; that he has an income "in excess of $20,000"; that his wife planned to spend $60,000 making KFJZ one of the finest small stations in the U. S. in the next three years. Asked after the hearing how he thought he would fare, Radioman Roosevelt avowed: "All right, I guess. But then maybe...