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Word: excessive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the excess energy bubbling up in thegroup was channeled into the puppet-making, buttrue to form, some kids still insisted on chasingone another through the halls with wildly drippinghands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mission Hill Coordinators Find Kids Blessing, Challenge | 3/13/1998 | See Source »

According to Herschbach, there is an excess of classroom space at 9 a.m. Faculty members, however, are doubtful about enrollment at early classes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUE Examines Room Crowding, Book Prices | 3/12/1998 | See Source »

...class of '86 at Harvard. I was not expelled in '87 nor any other year. I never did anything very bad at Harvard nor anything very good either. I was rusticated in '86 for an excess of political enthusiasm and a certain deficiency in intellectual attainments. I did not return to be graduated. There did not seem to be either reason or hope. I think the less said about my college career the better. Perhaps that is so with the rest of my career. However, exercise your own judgment, only please print the facts, or perhaps I should say, please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sounding Off, Talking Back | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Tower Records looms over the corner of Mass. Ave and Newbury St. in all of its sandstone and blue-steel glory, daring passers by to share in its decadence. Indeed, everything about Tower Records screams excess, from the double revolving doors to the haphazardly placed blue and orange neon lighting. According to Beth Blodgett, a store employee, Tower is "big and cheap and... so Tower...

Author: By Richard D. Ma, | Title: shoppin | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

Anorexic women often stop menstruating and grow excess body hair. Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder. Bulimics often purge upwards of five times a day. Fat people don't smell and aren't always lazy. Binge eaters have no concept of hunger or fullness...

Author: By Melissa L. Gibson, | Title: The Private Mantra | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

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