Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second thorn concerns the act of Gillette directors in selling stock to the company at a price far in excess of the present market. A group of minority stockholders sued for damages because of this, threatened to restrain the merger until they were assured that approval of the deal does not waive the directors' liability. The directors claim that all but one have taken back the stock at the same price the company paid, that the single exception is King Camp Gillette, who last week was too ill to be approached on the subject...
...must have an alter ego without egotism. This friend and spokesman should have political wisdom, like Mr. Smith's Judge Olvany and Mr. Wilson's Col. House. He should not be chosen carelessly, as Charles Curtis chose loud Matthew Quay Glaser (1928), nor should he have an excess of zeal as did Charles Dawes's Col. Ed Clifford. He should be a man of some distinction in his own right; often he will come to the aspirant of his own accord after the season is well advanced. In not having obeyed Rule i Ohio's Bulkley...
...will fly the 821 mi. between the U. S. and Bermuda, landing there by courtesy of Imperial Airways, which holds exclusive air rights on the islands. Imperial will fly the 3,699-mi. route between Bermuda, Azores and England in two daylight jumps, requiring an average cruising speed in excess of 130 m.p.h. At last report, Aeropostale had won from Portugal the exclusive rights at Horta, Azores (TIME, March 3). Observers last week predicted Aeropostale would gladly yield entry in return for a part in the transatlantic system...
...breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...
...drop of $124,210.92 in the excess of income over expenses for the Harvard Athletic Association for the year 1929-30 as compared with the year 1928-29 was revealed yesterday in the report of henry L. Shattuck, treasurer of Harvard College, In his report to the Board of Overseers for the 12 months ending June...