Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power economy is no less an advantage, since power is getting scarce. Last week WPB authorized a big new aluminum plant for Brooklyn, a city whose power rates are among the highest in the U.S. Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia also got new aluminum plants. Reason: these cities all have excess kilowatt capacity, and capacity, not price, is the important thing...
...emergency, turning the pages of a book. To supply the small amount of energy needed to perform that work they have been stuffing their faces with tremendous quantities of food and drink. The result has been an appalling growth of the girth-rate. At present there is so much excess weight on the typical Harvard frame that if all the men in the College were laid end to end, the result would be utterly repulsive...
...were asked to cooperate by trying to eliminate excess waste, by not ordering more than we think we can eat, by limiting our side orders to one by having a choice of only two salads, I am sure the deficit could be covered. An increase in board rate plus more stringent regulations on the ordering of extras and substitutions would do the trick...
...books. All the tomes will have been made over into microfilm reels, and cramming will be as good as going to the movies. After having filled up the open space between Widener and the Memorial Chapel with new library buildings, the College will have decided to burrow underground for excess storage space, and Weld will have collapsed into the Indic Philology and Semantics wing of the basement. Students will still learn in their Junior year that Widener is closed on Sundays...
...that spareth his rod hateth his son; but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Modern psychiatrists disagree with Solomon's technique, agree with his principle. One of their greatest problems is the overly protective mother who, in an excess of affection, turns her child into a sissy or a tyrant...