Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, fourteen students could not be accommodated by the Houses and were, consequently, sent to dorms in the Business School area for the year. It may be impossible to send excess students to Business School dorms next year, however, according to Watson, because of overcrowding there. In that event, the College will have to decide next year where to send the overflow...
Since the spring of 1953, when there was an excess of 92 House applicants, the total number of extra students has increased steadily. This spring 172 students have not been assigned definitely to a room in any of the Houses. It is expected that about 70 vacancies will occur over the summer, which will leave an excess of 100 in the fall...
Hilton had a strong answer to the Government's case. For one thing, said he, "we don't think we're in interstate business." For another: "In the U.S. there are 30,000 hotels with 1,500,000 guest rooms, which make an annual gross in excess of $2 billion. We operate 23 hotels in the U.S. [with] 24,680 rooms, and in 1954 their gross was $119 million. That is not a monopoly. We will vigorously defend the action of our corporation in acquiring the Statler company." Added Hilton: "Most of our future expansion will...
...price supports and a huge giveaway program. Lower price supports so spurred consumption that Benson was able to cut new purchases of butter by 45%, of cheese by 66%, of dried milk by 21%. Under the giveaway program, the U.S. in 1954 distributed a total 1.7 billion Ibs. of excess butter, cheese and dried milk, much of it free to welfare agencies at home and abroad, treble the amount disposed of in 1953. Together, the two projects reduced overall U.S. dairy surpluses by 54%; butter stocks went down by 35% (to 236,600,000 Ibs.), cheese stocks...
...other words, old age. To that I would add overwork. Upton Sinclair's family history is so tragic that it is natural for him to think that anyone who takes a drink is an alcoholic. And while we are about it, neither Dreiser nor Sherwood Anderson drank to excess...