Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cancer of the cervix or of the prostate gland. This work is still in its infancy; in the standard medical summary, "the results are encouraging but inconclusive." Far more widespread is the use of radiogold, with no thought of cure but _ simply to ease the pain and inconvenience of excess fluid formation in cancers of the chest or abdominal cavity...
...Wolfson contributed "in excess of $150,000" to Democrat Fuller Warren's successful campaign in 1948 for governor. Manhattan's Merritt-Chapman & Scott, of which Wolfson is board chairman, now has a $3,588,959 contract building the bridge substructure for Jacksonville's new $50 million expressway. The firm, whose total backlog is $89 million, has many big projects outside Florida, including part of California's $30 million Folsom...
...Down in Australia an eminent economist named Colin Clark has been studying high-tax countries (of which his is one). He finds that the effect of taxes changes when the tax bite rises above 25% of the national income. Taxation has always been considered deflationary, i.e., it saps up "excess purchasing power," and keeps demand from exceeding supply. Beyond 25%, however, Clark thinks that the tax bite is inflationary. The number of dollars in the national income increases faster than the amount of goods. Prices go up. If taxes do not fully cover Government spending, prices go up even faster...
...Hollywood embodies its belief that nothing succeeds like excess in the costliest movie ever made...
This is the smallest registration since the war--over 70 less than last fall's 4,498 men--but is still in excess of the 4,300 undergraduates Provost Buck described in 1950 as "the normal post-war student complement...