Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...respiratory diseases; deaths in the city mounted. The British Committee on Air Pollution finally estimated that during the five days that the smog smothered London, there were 4,000 more deaths than would have occurred under nor mal circumstances. During the next two months, there were another 8,000 excess deaths-most of them apparently caused by respiratory disease-that scientists suspected were a direct result of the killer smog...
Extreme air pollution again darkened London in 1956, killing 1,000, and in 1962, claiming more than 300 lives. In 1953, a ten-day temperature inversion over New York City trapped so much air pollution that 200 excess deaths were attributed to the smog by Dr. Leonard Greenburg, then New York's commissioner of air pollution. Another New York smog in 1963 killed more than 400, and there were 80 excess deaths recorded in New York during a four-day siege over the last Thanksgiving Day weekend. Scientists suspect that thousands of deaths each year in cities all over...
...have now created here. Plans for a new library and research building are being drawn. It is estimated that this building will cost $5 million. Towards this goal an application has been made to the Office of Education of the Federal Government for $1.5 million, and additional funds in excess of $500,000 have already been secured. This effort, which is only now beginning to move forcefully ahead, is being led by a former member of this Board, Mr. F. A. O. Schwarz. But when the full $5 million for this important building has been found, the School will still...
...such forbearance was for Christians only. The Crusades to liberate Jerusalem from the infidels amounted to a war of aggression launched by the church, with license for every kind of excess in the name of Christ. That the same body that could impose the Peace and Truce of God should be capable of rejoicing in a cargo of Saracen noses and thumbs or of filling the Temple of Solomon with blood has been the dark paradox of religious faith in every time and place. Just and holy wars are incompatible. The just war is predicated on awareness of human intemperateness...
...fairness to those who study such things, it should be said that all is not rosy in Lester's old Rome. The climactic chariot race, for instance, goes into excess, both of slapstick and length, and it does not do to play any joke too long. But as Mostel says, none of us is perfect, and Lester here is about as close as anybody has a right to expect. The opening number promises "A Comedy Tonight." And there...