Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for his prediction, he explained, is the survey done by Paul Kangieser, the State Climatologist of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Boston. Kangieser has found that of the last 16 Novembers which had an "excess of days in which the temperature averaged in the 50's" 75 percent were followed by a cold winter. This November, Brooks said, definitely "fitted this category...
...Flight 629, bound for Portland, Ore. The three bags, a bulky, battered suitcase secured by two web straps, a briefcase and a smaller suitcase, weighed 87 Lbs. -37 Lbs. over the limit allowed each passenger. When the ticket agent told her she would have to pay $27 for the excess baggage, the mother, Mrs. Daisie King, turned to her son and said, "Thirty-seven Lbs. -do you think I'll need all this?" Replied the son, Jack Graham: "Yes, Mother, I'm 'sure you will need it." Mrs. King was going to Alaska to visit her married...
...moment she seemed half disposed to unpack then and there, and leave some of the excess baggage behind, but she finally took her son's advice. "I've packed enough stuff to last me a year," she sighed, as she paid...
...today's market, the Federal Reserve Board sets all margin requirements. Now fixed at 70%, they have discouraged excess speculation. Customers' margin-buying debt was $2.9 billion last week, only 1.4% of the value of all listed stocks. The SEC and the exchange itself keep a sharp eye out for any market manipulation. Exchange members (and their firms) who break the rules can be hauled up before the New York Stock Exchange's board of governors, where they get a stern grilling, and punishment if found guilty. Last year 20 or 30 brokers were disciplined; in extreme...
...possibility, he pointed out, is that Yale, which had limited clinical facilities, might expand its program for the first two years, and send its excess students to Harvard. A similar arrangement might be worked out with Dartmouth, a two-year medical school, which annually sends about half of its graduating class to Harvard...