Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eskimos & Bantu. This advance in knowledge of the relationship between diet and heart disease has been based on the highly advertised facts that in most heart-attack victims 1) blood carries an excess of fat compounds called beta-lipoproteins, which contain cholesterol (a fatty alcohol); and 2) the coronary arteries are usually lined with cholesterol. While the body makes some cholesterol of its own, the amount in fatty foods seems to be important. For a while it was thought that there was a significant difference between animal and vegetable fats. The countries where coronary disease is the No. 1 killer...
Arthritis Due to Gout. The one rheumatic disease for which the cause is known, up to a point (the body's inability to dispose of purines without creating an excess of uric acid), and the only one for which diet is important. About 95% of victims are males. The disease smolders indefinitely, but is marked by acute flare-ups with excruciating pain in swollen, inflamed joints. In rare cases, it can threaten life by depositing uric acid crystals in the kidneys or heart. Sufferers must avoid foods rich in purines-yeast, herring roe, sardines, asparagus, and many organ meats...
...special report delivered Oct. 8 to the Board of Overseers and released to the CRIMSON last night Pusey did not mention the exact figure he is seeking in the drive--to be called "A Program for Harvard College"--but it is known that the figure will be in excess of $40 million, and probably more than twice that...
...been built. Ike found the crowd of 25,000 sullenly impassive to his greeting. Lockheed's management had stopped work for the President's visit; the International Association of Machinists, representing the workers, had objected to the order as "pure politics," called it "a flat donation in excess of $25,000" to the Republican Party. But elsewhere, the waving, shouting, confetti-tossing* multitudes acted like a tonic...
...around to sing them. The show glides along, smooth as a Detroit Air Cooled ("buoyant readability")-a dependable vehicle for those who long to be carried back to the days when the girls did the flea hop in short skirts, and the demand for violin cases was curiously in excess of the demand for violins...