Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complete $5,000,000 refurbishing went on-from new steel & concrete roofs to television and radio outlets-the House took up a temporary stand across the street in the new House Office Building. The Senate moved back to the old Supreme Court chamber which a 70-member Senate outgrew in 1859. (Both quarters are so cramped that the public will be excluded...
Johnny Weissmuller, whose waist measurement outgrew his Tarzan role, was forced to keep in trim for his Jungle Jim role, even with clothes on. The incentive: if he weighs in for a picture at more than 190 pounds, his contract makes him forfeit $5,000 for each overweight pound up to ten. For his second film, after a night in a Turkish bath, he tipped the scales at a safe...
...literary buzzards have circled above the place of apparent extinction. Archibald MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head...
...dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part of [Delacroix's] soul, the part devoted entirely to painting his dreams and to the cult...
Homemade Bakery. Recently, when business outgrew the garage, Mrs. Rudkin resolved her trouble in characteristic fashion. She sketched her idea of an ideal baking operation, complete with sloping tables for hand-kneading the bread. Then she drew a floor plan to house it. When she handed it to the architect, she warned him: You do the outside and the stairways, but don't change my plans." Last week Mrs. Rudkin and her 160 employees roudly moved into their new $625,000 plant. A U-shaped concrete building, it has a capacity of 4,000 loaves an hour. With...