Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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S.O.P. In Milwaukee, after listening to testimony that John S. Hanley drank to excess, threatened to leave his wife, failed to assume domestic responsibilities, refused to hang storm windows, shovel snow or cut the grass, Judge Robert C. Cannon dismissed Mrs. Barbara Hanley's divorce suit, told her she was not being specific enough...
...through his scholarly study of why the market has risen, he relaxed, realizing that he was indeed among friends. There were plenty of reasons why demand for stocks has gone up so fast, said Funston. Among them: easy money and credit, postwar inflation, institutional buying, the death of the excess-profits tax. At the same time the supply of stocks has not kept pace, partly because corporations have been raising money by borrowing instead of issuing stock, partly because the 25% capital-gains tax discourages investors from selling. Funston suggested that the tax should be halved, and the holding period...
...forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing in only a few countries. A Hollywood expert has estimated that about four out of every five cuts are because of "that excess sadism." Both Britain and Australia are especially touchy about actors who kick dogs or beat horses. In a few countries the authorities fear violent scenes will incite action among the politically unstable, as in Indonesia, where the storming of the Bastille was omitted from all showings...
...endowment fund will complement the fund raising program. It will be built up by the transfer of the excess funds of specific sports at the end of each year to the credit of the particular sport in the capital fund, and by direct donations...
Yale penalized 73 students for excess class-cutting during the fall term...