Word: excessive
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Gangrene is not the same as tetanus, but the bacilli that cause both problems are closely related; they-and possibly also the poisons they make-are destroyed by an excess of oxygen. The Surgery report was by Dr. I. Boerema and his colleagues at Amsterdam's Wilhelmina Hospital, but a hasty transatlantic call failed to reach Dr. Boerema. Eventually an assistant gave the necessary information, and with the consent of Douma's family, the Chicago Heights team decided to go ahead...
...Sound and the Fury. Critics hot for pessimistic reality may find this autumnal story a retreat into anecdotal escapism. More important, readers who know the body of Faulkner's work will miss, as they have in much of his recent writing, the matchless (even when flawed by excess), surging power of his earlier and darker creations. Occasionally the book falls into something close to pure sentimentality. But what the heart holds, Faulkner once wrote, becomes the truth. Faulkner's heart has held Yoknapatawpha County, its gentleness and comedy as well as its terror, for more than a generation...
...Crucial Questions. Toward the end of the '50s came a turning point in the economy: consumer demand began to be satisfied, and industry found itself nagged by excess capacity. This, coupled with mounting competition from the Europeans and Japanese, enforced a new price discipline on U.S. business. In 1957 wholesale prices leveled off. And in 1961 the U.S. enjoyed economic expansion with only a 1% rise in the cost of living...
...Science section [May 18]: if your calculation (186,282 m.p.h.) of "that old reliable constant of physics," the speed of light, were correct, it would take the sun's radiant energy 500 hours to reach our lithosphere, instead of the generally accepted figure of a little in excess of eight minutes...
Most of the nation's 2,500,000 peptic ulcer victims get a measure of relief from bland diets and from tablets and emulsions that neutralize excess stomach acid. But there are tens of thousands who have been forced to submit to more drastic treatment and have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...