Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aggravating circumstances. "Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period." As usual, the Communists were talking upside down: actually, the "bad spirit" was an excess of high spirits...
...department's surplus might well be put to use cancelling out another's deficit. For instance one academic department did exceptionally well last year, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which embraces the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Although this department used some of its excess income in bailing out the library and HAA, it needs most of the remaining surplus to guard against possible ups-and-downs in the near future. Moreover, University policy is that each individual department should stand for itself and not serve as a crutch for others...
...Government will have to pay for the surplus-estimated at 100,000 tons-at a top of $80 a ton, the bulk of which will probably go for pig-feed at $30 or less a ton. The Department knows that the cure is to rip up the excess vines, but it has yet to screw up its courage to force the raisin growers to do that...
...LaFlamme haircut is, according to the entrepreneurs, both natural and professional. It is low in back and done almost entirely with scissors because the management believes most barbers use the electric clipper to excess...
This 1948-1949 excess of income over expenses was achieved only because of a $508,742 surplus accrued in the University's administrative offices. Acting like a holding company for its numerous departments, the University was able to accumulate this $508,742, and thus absorb the deficit budgets of some departments...