Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five-hour bout with fever of 106° F., Dr. Fishberg's patients sweated out as much as five quarts of water, one-half ounce of salt, one-third ounce of lactic acid. Due to such acid content of sweat, athletes often complain of "stinging sweat." Because excess salt is shed through the skin, the body cannot supply normal amounts to the stomach, where in the form of hydrochloric acid it is needed for digestion. Nor can the kidneys filter from the blood an adequate amount of salt for the urine. As a result the urine is painfully alkaline...
...Corporation capital stock and excess profits taxes would be repealed, but not before...
...week that deposits in national banks were at an all-time high. Presumably Mr. O'Connor did not stress the point that these deposits had been inflated by Government borrowing and spending. Meantime, through the fiscal mysteries of central banking, the Treasury's huge March operations reduced excess bank reserves no less than $620,000,000 in one week. For the past few months the Treasury has been deliberately manipulating its balances to hold down excess reserves, the total last week being nearly $1,000,000,000 below the record reached last autumn. While excess reserves and their...
...January 1, 1935, the Herald-Post had a net paid circulation of 40,000. Today it has a circulation in excess of 57,000 daily. It is paid circulation; 98.7% of the accounts are collected...
...average gain in national advertising for the last three months of 1935 was in excess...