Word: excessiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Veterans might crew lunds on Veterans' Administration excess charge forms to cover costs, hut Monro advised, "Most veterans realize that unless they have eligibility time to burn, this is not a good way to use their eligibility...
...Cardinal Schuster granted him the use of the cathedral. It was not nearly big enough. A throng of 300,000 came to hear him call upon Italy to "give the world a new age of Christian individualism wherein the wealthy, like the early Christians, gladly share their excess wealth. . . . Woe to the rich man who does not hear the call. Woe to the poor man who angrily nourishes hate and dreams of violence.. . . The age of love is approaching...
...telegram which says 'Spider,' and I wire right back, 'Petite Marmite.' Then I usually get another wire . . . with just the word 'Petite.' And thus our friendship goes on, forever unalterable, since the thing that breaks up relationships between two people is usually an excess of words...
...sounded as cocky as ever. "We earned in excess of $22 million in the last nine months of 1947 on a one-shift operation," said Edgar Kaiser, "[and] we should do as well this year." But Wall Streeters, who had shown their hopes and fears about K-F in the ups & downs of the stock, were worried again. Wall Street thought that Cyrus Eaton of Otis & Co., an old K-F friend turned enemy (TIME, Feb. 23), was dumping 45,000 shares of K-F stock he held. It helped drive down the price to 8 7/8 at week...
...over the third devaluation measure of Finance Minister René Mayer-the calling in of all 5,000-franc notes. One farmer burned his, rather than turn them in and invite questioning. Black-marketeers and others, forced for the first time to disclose their holdings, scurried around selling their excess notes for as little as 200 francs. But honest Frenchmen lined up with their 5,000-franc notes and turned them...