Word: excess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...limiting the voice of its Communist members to their proportional representation, the Student Union will be neither red-baiting nor crimping the freedom of speech. For their unimportance in numbers -- merely a seventh of the total membership -- the Y.C.I., has had authority within the Student Union far in excess of its democratic privilege. Skilful infiltration into key posts has enabled them to hold their ground although far from representing majority opinion. And yet the blame for Communist leadership cannot be placed on their shoulders. They are only too eager to carry the load of committee chairmanships and organization. With their...
...company was about to buy 125,000 shares of stock from its Michigan subsidiary, Consumers Power Co. Mr. Eaton righteously set out a plan to disprove Wendell Willkie's chronic complaint that investors will not buy utilities securities: his Otis & Co. would gladly pay a price "substantially in excess" of the $28.25 that C. & S. was going...
...shipped to Canada from the other three countries, and in addition to pilots, some 100,000 mechanics, riggers, engine fitters, etc., etc., will be taught in expanded schools of Canada's youth training organization. Enlistments for all these services were reported last week to be far in excess of requirements, many more than can be handled...
...weeks without being charged with a definite offense against the law nor for more than three months without a public trial. . . . No man shall be subjected to any sort of mutilation or sterilization except with his own deliberate consent. ... He shall not be subjected to imprisonment with such an excess of silence, noise, light or darkness ars to cause mental suffering. ... He shall not be forcibly fed nor prevented from starving himself if he so desire. . . . The extreme punishments to which he may be subjected are rigorous imprisonment for a term of not longer than 15 years or death...
...declared Benediktov, will be rectified. All far-from-home plots will be replaced by land adjacent to villages, where officials can keep an eye on them. To millions of hard-working peasants this meant the loss of painfully wrought improvements. And some collective-farm managers, with a characteristically Russian excess of zeal, have confiscated all private plots, legal or not, and ejected counter-revolutionary cattle from communal pastures...