Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past, and be able to run under control. Then it is safe to run a little beyond his ordinary rate in order to progress. But in general, speed is like going to a party and getting drunk. Skiing is just as much fun in moderation as it is in excess...
Frantically casting off their excess burdens, the two rushed about grasping at imaginary strings. Finally the light was located, and the flood of illumination revealed to the surveyors that they had placed their binoculars on the tummy of a mummy, while the tripods stood beside a half-decomposed skeleton...
...Beaver can take from the people who work for him. Evelyn Waugh. a writer of fantastic novels (Decline And Fall, Vile Bodies, A Handful of Dust) was once an Evening Standard reporter. He has repeatedly and maliciously caricatured Beaverbrook as Lord Monomark or Lord Copper of the Daily Excess...
Last week total bank reserves were at an all-time high of $8,727,000,000, excess reserves only a mite below the 1935 peak of $3,300,000,000. For the first time in history banks are holding more cash than their total outstanding loans. In 1933 cash holdings were 48% of total loans; today they are 114%. This money, sitting idle, earning no return, has caused a drop in bank income from $556,514,000 for Federal Reserve members...
...purchase of $19,303 worth of advertising in the Free Press in 1937 at a price "far in excess of the ... regular advertising rates...