Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earrings and other jewelry more and more costly. "Probably," said Seneca, "these mad fools of women believe their husbands would not be sufficiently tormented were they not to wear two or three chunks of the hereditary patrimony hanging from each ear." The women doubtless deserved the scolding, but their excess of vanity has proved a boon for posterity. For the past few months, thousands of Italians have been delighting in an exhibition of 1,000 Italian gold and silver art objects spanning the centuries from...
...terms with letterpress. In The Bronx. N.Y.. R. Hoe & Co., which makes both offset and letterpress equipment, is currently testing a web offset press, incorporating many improvements conceived by a Copenhagen printing firm, that is designed to print a 72-page newspaper, in four colors, at speeds in excess of 50,000 copies an hour. This 350-ton, $2,000,000 behemoth has been ordered by Grit, a weekly newspaper published in Williamsport, Pa., for 900,000 subscribers in small towns throughout...
...also with a high level of male sex hor mones in the patients. Adenocarcinoma, less common, is the usual form in women and in men with high outputs of female hormones. A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones...
...minor comic roles, Yann Weynouth, Terrence Currier, Beryl Kinross-Wright, and Kenneth. Tigar are all delightful. In a production as well paced as this one an indulgence in a little excessive mugging (of which Tiger is guilty) and overstated flippancy. (Bery! Kinross-Wright's only excess) are easily forgivable, at moments even very funny...
...match for heavy artillery. When Moltke hesitated despite this victory, a general named Alexander von Kluck took matters into his own hands on the right wing, although his troops were exhausted. "They look like living scarecrows," noted one of Kluck's officers in his diary. "They drink to excess, but this drunkenness keeps them going. If we used too much severity the army would not march." Kluck decided to disregard Moltke's order to hold back; he would cross a little French river called the Marne...