Word: excessives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "and I was confident that I would." Player had never won an amateur tournament when he abruptly turned pro at 17. But under the careful eye of his future father-in-law, Johannesburg Club Professional Jock Verwey, he practiced religiously, eight hours a day, trimmed off excess weight with a diet of nuts, dried fruit and honey, built up muscle by lifting weights and doing 70 fingertip push-ups a day. From fellow South African Bobby Locke, Player picked up pointers on his short game. Later, from Ben Hogan, he learned how to grip his clubs properly. Says Hogan...
...evocation of the Second Coming of Christ. But for those who do not care to be edified by spiritual symbolism, Director Federico (La Strada) Fellini has supplied plenty of earthy realism by clothing his allegory in the robes of a modern Roman saturnalia, stained by spiritual depravity and sexual excess...
...more practical. It uses potassium or sodium super-oxide to generate oxygen and absorb CO2. Only on very long voyages, the sort that are measured in years, will closed systems using algae be the most efficient. On such space ventures, the crew may even be able to eat the excess algae (Pilgrim's daughter Vicki Leigh, 15, has made acceptable cookies of them), eliminating much of the need for toting food on the voyage...
...that would make provisions for all future ramifications; the West preferred signing separate treaties for each separate stage of agreement as it is reached. In spring of 1960 agreement was reached on a controlled ban of explosions, underwater tests, air tests, and underground tests producing a seismographic signal in excess of 4.75. This figure represented the point below which scientists could not agree on the nature of the disturbance. The plan also made provision for a progressive lowering of this "threshold level" as new research made better detection possible...
...deficit" between public school needs and resources as roughly $8 billion a year. The U.S. Office of Education reports that last fall public schools were short 142,160 classrooms. Of the nation's current 37.6 million pupils in public elementary and secondary schools, 1,868,000 are "in excess of normal capacity," and 685,000 are on half-day shifts. In the next decade, the schoolgoing population will rise by nearly 1,000,000 pupils a year, three-fourths of them concentrated in 200 large cities, and they will need 607,600 more classrooms. At college level, where enrollment...