Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jewish doctors in Vienna last week had little hope for abatement of Nazi prejudice. Although 2,000,000 people live in the city (including 200,000 Jews), there has long been an excess of doctors in the community. Three out of ten Vienna doctors are Jews. Adolf Hitler, who once lived there as a penniless house painter thinks that the populace can get along with less doctoring. The fact that last summer German doctors were permitted to attend a Viennese X-ray congress dominated by Jews last week seemed no warrant against a thoroughgoing Nazi program...
...book, Alcohol in Moderation and Excess, said that abuse of alcohol led to all kinds of social, moral and physical ills, warned that moderate drinking might lead to excessive drinking. But Authors Waddell & Haag were constrained to add that modern scientific thought held the moderate use of alcohol "does not shorten the life span and probably plays no important part in the perpetration of lawlessness," that, indeed, it helped digestion, gave bibbers a "lift," produced "a feeling of self-satisfaction and physical well-being...
Although last autumn in the interest of economy he came out against the building of public roads, President Roosevelt last week dignified the super-highway idea by endorsing Senator Bulkley's self-payment plan as a business pump primer, and by suggesting that through excess condemnation of land a mile each side of the superhighways the Government might realize a profit when land values rose...
...must be made by November 15 of each year; for 1938 ten days after the passage of the Act. Loan provisions are the same as those for wheat. Marketing quotas (except for 1938) will go into effect when supplies reach 19,500,000 bales with a 2?enalty for excess marketing on first crop and a 3? penalty on subsequent crops...
...anyone will see, who cares to spend two and a half enjoyable hours at RKO Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...