Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew big news when he heard it; he hustled the word back to the ears of his board chairman. This week, barely a month after he got the message, hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), baby-faced Cecil Harmsworth King, 57, bought control of Amalgamated for a bid in excess of $45 million, thereby became ruler of the world's most widespread press empire...
Last week Nassau County's Medical Examiner Leslie Lukash told why. Sharry Rubin's bloated stomach had refused-possibly because of her emotional tension -to empty through its lower outlet. The excess food digesting in the stomach drew in fluid and built up a powerful back pressure. As Sharry made violent but vain efforts to release this pressure by vomiting, it burst the upper part of the stomach. The contents (more than 4 qts.) began to spill into the abdominal cavity, caused peritonitis...
...list. The list has grown so long that today the Santas-in-pin-stripes spend something like $1 billion on yuletide cheer: $300 million for liquor, the rest for a stockingful of loot ranging from $2.50 puddings to $2,500 pianos. The giving is not necessarily due to an excess of Christmas spirit; businessmen simply think that they must. As Denver Radio Station Owner Gene Amole says: "Giving business Christmas presents is like drinking at lunch. Nobody wants to, but everyone's scared not to." Now at last, the tide is turning. The company Christmas present, like the office...
James S. Duesenberry, professor of Economics, considering the unemployment aspect of the recession, felt that the present recovery trends will not be sufficient to bring unemployment below four percent. He stated that "there is no justification for basing all our policy on the assumption that excess demand is going to develop...
...Formed in 1728, the Philomusarian Club declared in its preamble that "whereas Conversation, which is the Basis of Friendship The fundamental Principle of Society ... Is now at A Very Low Ebb ... Vice and Folly Are In Their Zenith.... And whereas Vice is Now become Alamode and Rant Riot and Excess is Accounted The Height of Good Breeding and Learning--In Order Therefore to Stem That Monstrous Tide of Impiety and Ignorance," the Philomusarian Club is formed. Seven of the ten organizers became ministers...