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Word: excessively (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long time" was the only comment Chief Randall would make. For the first time this fall, no student's bursar's cards were collected by University police. Randall felt that Dean Bender's get-tough letter in Thursday's CRIMSON had a lot to do with stopping excess student enthusiasm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cronin's, Other Bars Feel ABC's Squeeze on Age | 11/14/1951 | See Source »

There was a feeling among the squad last year that part of its poor showing was due to an excess of travelling. That is why the H.A.A. was particularly anxious to schedule a tournament-type trip, such as at Michigan State, where the varsity would play most of its games on one floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Schedules No Yule Tourney; HAA Looks Towards Trip for '52 | 11/8/1951 | See Source »

...Army has made it a policy to raid the Guard to find replacements for the troops in Korea. Morale was dropping, the Guard was losing its identity. Some units, said Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania's 28th Guard Division, know that men "attain greater gallantry in battle when they fight by the side of comrades who know and understand them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Bleats from the Guard | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...enthusiasm," however, has not produced an excess demand for Princeton tickets. Seniors, juniors, and sophomores have taken almost 2,500 seats, including Sections 33, 34, 35, and all of 36 except for the rows on the track...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tickets for Princeton Game Selling Well; '55 Buys Today | 11/1/1951 | See Source »

Everybody had known that the excess-profits tax, and the retroactive boost in the new tax bill, would nip profits. But few realized how deep the bite would be until G.E.'s President Ralph Cordiner last week provided the first blue-chip example. G.E., which had set aside $38.5 million for taxes in last year's third quarter, this year had to set aside $59 million to take care of a retroactive boost to Jan. i. As a result, in spite of a $36 million gain in sales, G.E.'s net ($15.6 million) was less than half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Tax Toll | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

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