Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born & bred in Brooklyn. Hirsch Jacobs outgrew sidewalk handball as an outlet for his competitive urge when he was 13. Like many another adolescent in New York's restricted areas, he then achieved a vicarious escape mechanism by raising and training homing pigeons, in partner ship with his Italian neighbor, Charles Ferrara. When representatives of the Jacobs-Ferrara lofts came home first in several pigeon races, the partners turned their thoughts to bigger things. In 1924 they invested in a race horse named Demijohn. This was before Pigeon Fancier Jacobs had ever seen a horse race or even made...
...company which Mr. Macauley, the One Twenty and Recovery have done so much for outgrew its founders when still an infant. It was formed in 1899 in Warren, Ohio, by Brothers James and Warren
...Skeezix grow out of babyhood. Meanwhile Walt had become prosperous, married his comely neighbor Phyllis Blossom. With careful delicacy Cartoonist King shielded her form and feelings during pregnancy until, six years ago, Baby Corkleigh ("Corky") was born to the Wallets. While Skeezix lengthened into gangling adolescence, "Corky," too, outgrew his infant tricks...
...dominant position in Manhattan's art world. Painter Ernest is the better known. He is well represented in many important collections, figures regularly in exhibitions, teaches painting to hand-picked students. Last week blond, bushy-mustached Brother Paul gave his first one-man show of sculpture and outgrew the title of "Ernest Fiene's Younger Brother" as completely as Stephen Vincent Benét outgrew ''William Rose Benét's Younger Brother" with the publication of John Brown's Body. In the middle of a show room of portrait heads and animal studies...
...Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument in court that Jesse Lasky's job outgrew...