Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like angina pectoris, in which strong emotions play a part. Reason: the intelligent person understands and worries about his condition, and it gets worse; the madman has no such worries. To doctors, Dr. Donald Gregg of Wellesley, Mass. gave this advice: "Let us lessen our emotional load by avoiding excess of emotional stimuli, by slackening our pace, or bearing it intermittently; by avoiding excessive specialization thereby lessening our dependence on others, and by developing our knowledge of facts and wisdom in applying these facts, and by developing a philosophy and a faith to take the place of that which...
...With regard to the Daily Herald . . . its net sales are in excess of 2,000,000 copies per day, the largest sale of any daily newspaper in the world, and have remained so for the past 18 months. . . . It is receiving increasing support and confidence from the advertisers. . . . No further capital should be needed for the development of this property [which] may now be considered on an entirely self-supporting basis. [Applause...
...compulsory limits on the production of cotton and tobacco producers and imposed prohibitive taxes on production in excess of quotas...
...star away from or toward the observer. Last week the same Dr. Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed a marked excess over that of their companions which could not be due to dissimilar motion, must therefore be due to the restraining effect of their powerful gravitational fields on their radiated light...
...statistical bureau will supply all companies with production and consumption figures, work to keep excess stocks from accumulating...