Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge of powder, 2) pours it down the barrel, 3) moistens a cloth patch with saliva, 4) puts a lead ball on the patch, 5) sets patch and ball in the muzzle, 6) taps the ball with a little mallet or some other appropriate tool, 7) trims away the excess cloth, 8) shoves the ball down the barrel with a short ramrod called a bullet starter, 9) works the ball home with a long ramrod, 10) deposits a priming charge in the pan. He uses black powder instead of smokeless (which is too powerful), so each shot envelops...
...number is 100 more than the ideal size set by the University for an entering class. Part of the excess came about when not as many men who were accepted dropped out, as was the case in past years...
...last week at the College of Medical Evangelists (run by Seventh-Day Adventists) in Loma Linda, Calif. They applauded Chicago's Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy (no Adventist but a Methodist) when he berated alcohol in any form as a "habit-forming . . . and dangerous drug," which, used to excess, "is degrading to human reason and dignity...
...together the story. A month before, the army had launched separate heavy attacks against the Communistic Huks who had been spreading terror through the provinces of Bataan and Laguna. Taken by surprise, the local Huk commanders ordered the guerrillas to retreat along narrow jungle paths into the mountains. All excess baggage had to be discarded On the way; that included children...
There were no patterns of gains & losses by industries. Too many abnormal factors -the excess-profits tax, war orders, price and production controls-were affecting different companies in too many different ways. Furthermore, with most industries once more in a hotly competitive market, companies again faced the acid test of efficiency, and some passed it far better than others...