Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green Crimson lacrosse team will encounter an equally unseasoned Tufts squad at 2 p.m. today at Tufts. The game if not spectacular, should prove interesting, since both teams have an excess of inexperienced sophomores...
Albert Gore for the Associated Press: "How deep the Nautilus can dive is a secret. But there is no secret that I had nervous twinges as she plunged down in excess of 300 feet. How fast she will race through the dark, briny depths is also a secret. But it was the thrill of a lifetime to break all previous records in this respect as the midnight hour approached . . . The food we ate was cooked by atomic power. The water we drank was distilled from ocean water by atomic energy. The submarine was not only driven but lighted, heated...
...chance to answer the question himself. Armed with charts and statistics, Curtice testified that the auto industry is fiercely competitive, and that G.M.'s prices have increased less since 1941 than its competitors'. But why, asked Fulbright, did G.M. not cut its prices when the excess-profits tax expired? Said Curtice: "In effect, we lowered prices because we did not increase the prices with the greatly enhanced value that was built into the cars...
About four per cent, or 45 members of the freshman class, however, fall the course, because of an excess of cuts. For those 45 there is a year of rough exercise ahead, since they must make up the cuts, plus undergoing a six- or 12-week punitive schedule...
...Ulcer victims who swill milk and assorted alkalies can do themselves more harm than good; Dr. Edward Kessler of Albany, N.Y. has seen three patients in one year who were petrifying themselves by clogging their kidneys with excess calcium. Other doctors have reported seven deaths. The danger to life increases with the duration and degree of the self-medication, especially with sodium bicarbonate and its proprietary relatives...