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...unable to settle, they must nevertheless find ways to relax the. most severe and dangerous of the tensions. Under the constraints of the military stalemate, all the principal powers are impelled to stay more or less where they are now, to live with their differences, hoping somehow to outgrow them or to outlive them...
Aggressive & Unchanged. Many of Ketcham's ideas for the cartoon no longer come from his son, who has begun to outgrow the caricature. Instead, Ketcham depends on his friend Bob Harmon, 34, a victim of muscular dystrophy, who keeps a steady stream of Dennis cartoon suggestions and captions flowing from his West Coast home, gets a large share of Dennis income. Dennis the Menace will never grow older, never acquire any brothers or sisters, or change in any way. Says Cartoonist Ketcham: "He'll be 4½ and unchanged all his aggressive little life...
Denver was not a frontier for long. By 1902 it had 37 schools-and its rising school population was beginning to outgrow them. Stately Superintendent Aaron Gove added sewing and cooking to the still rigid curriculum; roughriding Lucius Hallett bulled through a $6,000,000 bond issue to build three new high schools and enlarge ten other buildings; under able Jesse Newlon, teachers finally won a single salary scale. During the 1920s the city saw 26 new schools rise up all over town. But the race between the rising buildings and rising enrollments never seemed to stop. When 43-year...
...took the school a while to outgrow the gibe. But the Duke of President Edens had much to boast of besides its millions. In the past decade, it had doubled in size (to 5,211 students), and as enrollments swelled, standards had been raised to keep out all but top-ranking applicants. World War II finally eliminated the flashy roadster; the veteran drove out the playboy...
Surgeon May did his persuasive best. But Siam Doctor is no trumpet call to noble deeds; it is largely a winking kaleidoscope of Oriental reminiscences, studded with startling clinical notes. Dr. May found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...