Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve Board denied that it is purposely easing credit, it has nevertheless allowed the easing to take place without clamping on countermeasures. One figure that economists watch with increasing interest is the "free reserve" position of banks in the Federal Reserve System, which is calculated by comparing the excess reserves of member banks with their total borrowings from the system. Last April member banks had negative free reserves of some $533 million; i.e., they borrowed more than was covered by reserves, were thus in debt to the Federal Reserve and badly pinched for money. Since then the banks have...
...This excess of energy has a detrimental effect on the studies of those performers who do attend Harvard, especially if, as frequently happens, they are appearing in one play while rehearsing for another. Like any other extra-curricular activity, dramatic work takes time, but unlike most other activities the expenditure can not be spread out evenly through the year. When a production nears opening night, rehearsals get longer and more exhausting, sometimes lasting from six in the afternoon until two in the morning. As a result gaps which are difficult to repair appear in the school work of the student...
...years of experimenting on animals at Harvard University," Dr. Alexander Forbes, professor of Physiology, emeritus, said, "I have never seen cruelty to an animal in excess of that which a man would sacrifice for a friend...
...grandfathers were Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of State John Hay, and William Collins Whitney, a street-railway tycoon and multimillionaire. Thanks principally to Grandfather Whitney, Jock Whitney is endowed with a fortune of some $60 million (which will tide him through the London embassy's estimated excess expenditure of $50,000 a year above the ambassador's $27,500-a-year salary and allowances), but he has always managed to combine the graces of a patrician upbringing with shrewd common sense. Once he ordered his name expunged from the New York Social Register because he considered...
...dozen sects and faiths, show that she was deeply preoccupied with Dionysus, Osiris, Buddha and Plato as well as Christ. She applauds continually the Greek ideals of harmony, measure, proportion and order. Yet she herself burns with a passion for the Absolute, and the Hellenic "nothing in excess" is precisely the law she could not live by. Her grandeur, as well as her absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament prophets with their incandescent fervor and their rare and terrible purity. Simone Weil embarrasses, as a saint embarrasses...