Word: excessive
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plan, designed to set a precedent for future excess finances, provides that the sum may be spent before the election of the class committee, by a majority vote of the Class of '57 or the Student Council. The money may be invested through the joint decision of the Treasurer and the Associate Dean...
Edward M. Abramson '57, treasurer of the Council, treasurer of last year's Union Committee and author of the bill, said that a set plan for the disposal of excess freshman credits had become necessary because of the unusually large amounts left ever last year--and probably in the future--after reduced entertainment taxes...
...Morally Right." To Walter Reuther, the auto workers' demands are "economically sound, morally right and socially responsible." He claims that the U.A.W. can produce dollar figures on the auto industry to prove "excess profits" and ability to pay for G.A.W. But so far, the auto workers have talked only in generalities...
...China these days. Such information as has come through, however, via Hong-Kong and some of the Asian nations, confirms the fact that the flood was a disaster of the first magnitude, and that the resultant suffering was great. Life, whose facilities for research are considerably in excess of the FOR's, reported that an area larger than the state of Texas (250,000 square miles) had been flooded; The New China News Agency, after at first claiming that the Yangtse dikes had held, reported the inundation of some 42,000 square miles and the necessary evacuation of 10 million...
Although most doctors concede that excess fat is a factor in many illnesses, they disagree about its causes, relative danger, and effective control among 34 million overweight Americans. At Iowa State College last week, top U.S. obesity experts gathered to exchange the latest news about fat. Among the reports: ¶ Being overweight isn't so much of a health problem as most people think, said Dr. Ancel Keys, of the University of Minnesota. Insurance company statistics linking excessively high heart-disease fatalities to overweight do not mean that every chubby person must reduce, since fat and overweight...