Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve months ago House Armed Services investigators set out to determine whether U.S. planemakers are making excess profits on military contracts (TIME, March 5). Last week, after an investigation of twelve major plane producers, the Congressmen concluded: "There has been no showing that, on the average, the profits allowed are excessive...
...more serious but still "benign" cases. Last week it was full to capacity, with eight men and seven women suffering from "anguish neuroses," adaptation difficulties, depression, and exam paralysis. A second home, with 50 beds, is scheduled to open in January. But the need will still be far in excess of supply...
...those students who desire to work off excess energy during July and August, the Summer School has opened the University's extensive athletic facilities...
...Technique. This dry technique of telling a juicy story, marrying the British gift for understatement with the British craving for crimes of excess, was devised by a young barrister named George Riddell, who joined the paper at the turn of the century, when its circulation was 30,000. Riddell soon became managing editor, catered to other favored British tastes by adding big side dishes of sports coverage (including quoits, darts and pigeon racing) and contests, plus a light helping of political comment. "We're just like the Old Testament," Riddell told his critics. "We report crime and punishment." Riddell...
When a passive model is being tested, the air in the tunnel is sent around a circuit and used repeatedly, but jet engines or ram-jets poison the air with their exhaust gases. New air must be taken from the atmosphere, and its excess moisture eliminated. So the tunnel is provided with a monstrous air dryer stocked with 1,890 tons of activated alumina, which soaks up 1.5 tons (ten bathtubs) of water per minute. On a muggy day the alumina has to be dried out after two hours, and this takes enough gas burners to keep the whole city...