Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deuterium occurs in nature to the extent of one atom among 4,500 atoms of ordinary hydrogen. With modern apparatus if deuterium is present in quantities much greater than this proportion it can be detected. Thus if a man weighing 160 lb. drinks 20 drops of heavy water, the excess of deuterium will show in his urine. Biologists have been quick to see that, with two kinds of hydrogen atoms as distinct as red and green, a neat method was available for tracing the course of hydrogen-bearing compounds in body processes. Scientists in Germany have already found by this...
...railroad managements, more alarmed this year than ever, retort that the 70-car limit, like the proposed "excess crew" law, is a bald-faced, work-making scheme, and that talk of increased danger on long trains is twaddle. The Transportation Association of America declares that since 1922 the U. S. roads have spent $8,000,000,000 modernizing their equipment and rights of way. much of it expressly for handling long trains with safety. Train lengths have increased in recent years but employe casualties have decreased. In 1923, when freight trains averaged 40 cars in length, crew casualties numbered...
...find that the provocation for the police assault did not go beyond abusive language and the throwing of isolated missiles. . . . From all the evidence we think it plain that the force employed by the police was far in excess of that which the occasion required...
...ablest men, including Arthur Brisbane and Morrill Goddard, the genius who gave him the American Weekly. He made the Spanish-American War his personal affair for the Journal'?, sake. The transition of the old Journal into the American, effected in three steps between 1901 and 1903, followed an excess of boldness which nearly earned Hearst the blame for President McKinley's assassination...
...throat through two holes at the inner corner of each eye. Ordinarily this flow & drainage of tears is imperceptible, and serves simply to keep the eyeballs clean and slippery. But dirt or stinging stuff in the eyes makes those glandular reservoirs suddenly empty in a protective local reflex. The excess causes weeping, sniffling and gulping, for hard crying produces more tears than the tear ducts can carry off, and the excess overflows the lower eyelids onto the cheeks. This phenomenon has been occurring on all sides in recent weeks as police heaved gas grenades which spurted clouds of white fumes...