Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Census Bureau estimated that the population was 163.9 million, up an amazing 2,800,000 in a year. Nearly all of this is natural increase, i.e., excess of births (rate: 25.2 per 1,000) over deaths (rate: 9.2 per 1,000). Immigration, which around 1910 increased the U.S. population by about i% a year, is now down to about a tenth...
Exercise, moderate but consistent, is an excellent method to use up excess calories, the nutritionist said. In the long run, however, he emphasized, the best way to remain normally healthy is to cut down on eating in order not to become dangerously...
...learned about it. Most researchers have tried to find out where the white cells come from, and why. Dr. Bierman thinks this is only one part of the picture, and probably not the most important, because in some forms of leukemia, it is now known, there is no excess of white cells...
...rental projects investigated, 437 had mortgages totaling $75.8 million more than costs. The excess amount of mortgage money was pocketed by builders as windfall profits. In the remaining 106 projects, costs to builders were $6,800,000 more than mortgages. However, according to the law, builders should have invested more than twice as much ($14.2 million) of their own money as they did. ¶ In FHA applications, many builders valued land at five times its actual cost; architect's fees were put as high as ten times their cost...
...however, one did so anyway. In direct opposition to the regulations of the Faculty Committee on Athletic Sports, the squad not only played Columbia and Yale there, but it flew cross country to return an engagement with Stanford. Although the Crimson lost, 44 to 0, it defended it excess travelling on the grounds that the game was played before school actually opened...