Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pacifistic. In 1910, the Kalser of the German Empire told his army in a public address that the time was coming when their duty to their fatherland would demand their facing the armed forces of Europe. No one paid any attention to what seemed only an excess of patriotism. Three years later Europe was in the grip of the World...
...Dallas, Grand Rapids, and Columbus, Ohio, from a Chicago syndicate known as Jacob Kulp & Co. It was charged that the Kulp concern did what amounted to a brokerage business in postal leases, had issued some $150,000.000 in bonds on the strength of these leases, which was vastly in excess of the true value of the properties rented...
...There is no room for dullness in today's newspapers. There is no room for excess verbiage. There is no room for elaborate writing...
...farm lands and operates numerous beet sugar factories in Utah, Idaho, Washington, Montana, South Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide oversupply of sugar following upon Wartime excess production has gravely injured this industry, and President Grant says the Church would gladly quit the business, if possible, at a 50% loss. But if it be true that the Mormon Tabernacle rests, among other things, on sugar beets, it is likewise true that the Church's beet-backing...
...leads to rapid destruction of the member involved. The new Boeing model has satisfactorily overcome this difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack for a few small "eggs...