Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suffered by the ex change. Chunky, genial, levelheaded. Senator Wagner has been pounding away at Unemployment Relief for two years. Said he last week: "The Administration has waited for some miracle to come about to absorb the unemployed and unemployment has risen to a total in excess of 10.000.000. What has Congress done? We have brought about no recovery in business by any action so far and it is clear that private industry is unable to take up the slack. Thus far we have been smug, complacent, waiting for someone else. But the situation can't be met that...
Charge in Excess of Quota...
...looked last week as though the Federal Reserve Board had given a dose of salts to a country with a broken leg. The volumes of excess credit (about $300,000,000 worth) which the Reserve had quietly been piling up since February by increasing its weekly purchases of Government bonds (TIME, April 25) still lay idle. Observing this, the Board lowered its purchases of Government bonds from around $100,000,000 a week to $58,000,000, and awaited developments...
...matter in what we really want. We have to make an effort to feel ourselves and to know ourselves by envying and competing with others. We use our imaginations, [not] to penetrate what is real and there before our eyes . . . but to evolve fictive compensations for pseudo-desires in excess of our faculties ... by which to be disappointed, inevitably." Among men's fictive compensations Author Wescott considers most notorious Literature,whose contemporaneous practitioners contend to be social mouthpieces, rather than rulers and revealers as of old; old-fashioned ideas about sex ("Childlessness is a virtue now, though probably...
...Toledo plant. I am listing below the number of consecutive accident-free days at other plants of the Medusa Portland Cement Co. York, Pa. 942 days Manitowoc. Wis. 922 " Bay Bridge, Ohio 893 " Newaygo, Mich. 853 " You will notice that the record of all these plants is in excess of the figure in the article. In 1930 all eight plants of Medusa Portland Cement Co. operated with but one minor lost time accident and the company was awarded the Joseph A. Holmes Certificate by the U. S. Bureau of Mines...