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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little salt as possible. A diuretic, to help the patients get rid of water, is also a standard treatment. But Drs. Burch and Reasor showed that the big problem is to get rid of sodium rather than water. For that purpose, a mercurial diuretic is best; it carries off excess sodium in urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Better Hearts? | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...FAMILIES. . . . MY BROTHER ROWLAND DIED AS THE RESULT OF HAVING BEEN GASSED IN THE 1914 WAR, AND CERTAINLY ANY IMPLICATION THAT HE DIED FROM DRINK IS WRONGFUL TO THE MEMORY OF THIS FINE MAN. THE PHRASE, "WHO DRANK," MIGHT LEAD YOUR READERS TO BELIEVE THAT HE DRANK TO EXCESS. . . . ROWLAND WAS NOT A TEETOTALER BUT DRANK IN MODERATION AS DO MILLIONS OF OTHERS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...from 11 to 5 o'clock. The pool will be open for business at 11:15, 12:15, 2 and 3 o'clock. Upstairs a few flights in the Indoor Building, there will be push-ups at 12:15 o'clock for those who want to work off excess baggage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informal Nine Is Planned for Summer Term | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...grey market daisy chain" of steel brokers. The committee was not able to pin down the exact workings of the grey market. But the plain assumption was that steel flowed into it from brokers able to buy from mills, by virtue of prewar dealings, or from manufacturing companies with excess supplies. Instead of canceling their mill orders, as they usually would, these companies took delivery and turned the steel over to brokers at a fat profit. As each party in this daisy chain got his cut, the price was run up and steel was kept out of the normal channels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Daisy Chain | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Overweight men & women sometimes take thyroxine* to burn up excess fat and make their figures slimmer and more attractive. Hogs may soon be fed thiouracil, the opposite of thyroxine, to make their figures fatter and more attractive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slow, Fat & Attractive | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

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