Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have wagered $75, winner to donate same to the Boy Scouts, that you will receive -by June 25-in excess of 35 letters drawing your attention to this error, artist's license excluded...
...Class of 1930, the minimum goal was $335,000, of which $250,000 will be given to the University as unrestricted funds, and $85,000 will be used to pay for reunion-week expenses. Whatever excess of this sum is raised will be given to the College for scholarship endowments...
...advance billing. Though planemakers need titanium badly, the metal is so costly (current price: $7,000 to $8,000 a ton) and so difficult to fabricate that "production is running far ahead of demand." As a result, the General Services Administration has already stockpiled 4,000 tons of excess titanium at a cost of $36 million, may have to buy another 5,100 tons over the next year...
...reasons are not hard to find. Thomas returned to poetry what people used to expect of it: joy. His work was sometimes tortured and anguished. It could be obscure-not obscure in a deliberate, cultish manner, but in the sense that an excess of color can produce darkness. But far the larger part of his verse is ebullient, drenched with sight and sound, rich in haunting new language fed from old and sparkling springs...
DEFENSE CONTRACT PROFITS will come under heavy fire from congressional Democrats, who plan an investigation by a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. However, the investigators have little evidence to date of profiteering. The Renegotiation Board, whose predecessors collected $11 billion in excess profits after World War II, has inspected 15,700 cases since Korea, found only 3,000 with excess profits amounting to $470 million...