Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the inequities of the World War II excess profits tax was the definition of "normal earnings" as the average profits for the years 1936-39. Anything over the average was taxable at a maximum rate of 90%. Many corporations complained that the base was unfair since they had been pouring money into expansion or new products during the '36-'39 period, thus their earnings were smaller than normal. For them, Congress left a loophole in the act: section 722. It provided for a rebate for corporations who could prove their 1936-39 average abnormally...
Carl A. Wagner '53, chairman of the H.L.U.'s film series, discovered the theft Tuesday following the showing of Alfred Hitchcock's mystery, "The 39 Steps." He found the total number of ticket stubs--more than 1,000 selling at 60 cents apiece--were in excess of the net income of $534. Wagner estimates income should have been approximately...
Probably commoner, says Dr. Wilkins, are cases in which disease of the adrenal glands causes an excess output of the male hormones. If the trouble starts in a baby girl still in the womb, it brings on outward physical changes and makes her look like a boy. In a few years she will have a deep voice and may start to grow a beard. If the trouble comes later in childhood (perhaps as the result of an adrenal tumor), most of the changes will be superficial-flat chest, narrow hips, deep voice and hirsutism. In a boy, the effect...
...Brahms Variations, long and repetitions, need a varied, carefully proportioned performance if their basic grandeur is to get through. Beyer's contrasting treatment of the heaven-storming passages and the more flippant variations was enormously effective. He sometimes injected a bit of ham by excess rubato and uncalled for rolling chords, but at least it was obvious that his interpretation was the result of careful thought...
...four or more years experience in public service, they received a free year of advanced education. Like the Niemen Fellows and the Advanced Management men at the Business School, they reversed the tradition of education first and experience second. They were to use their savvy to see through the excess theory of the courses they took, and train themselves for bigger government jobs...