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Malthus, who died in 1834, predicted that the world's population would soon outgrow its food supply. Then war, pestilence and famine, caused by overpopulation, would slap down presumptuous man. This did not happen. The world's population had doubled since Malthus' time, from one billion to two, but new lands were cultivated and old lands made more productive. Better transportation brought surplus food from afar to feed the hungry industrial cities. There were local famines, as there had always been, but the world never ran out of food. The gloomy Malthus, who had underestimated both nature...
Brightest bit of fantasy was the work of an expatriated Englishman named O'Connor Barrett, who had to outgrow a strait-laced start. Barrett's strict parents had talked Latin at dinner, limiting their conversation almost entirely to religion. In 1923, when he was 15, Barrett went to work in a furniture factory and subsequently carved hundreds of Chippendale chair legs. Says he: "Oh, how I hate Chippendale!" There was no Chippendale influence in his squatly intense Stalemate, which looked like a couple of ancients so intent on a game of chess that their bodies knottily reflected...
...American idea that "youth is always right," or "don't be too hard on them, they'll outgrow it," are responsible, along with lack of home discipline, for the unnecessarily loud and crude behavior of high school youth today...
Boolba lived in New York City for many years, and, although he considers himself a New Yorker, he tries to outgrow it. He plans to move out to the middle west in the future...
Children who stutter seldom outgrow it without proper training. Nor can it be cured by such customs as holding pebbles in the mouth, swinging the arms, or crawling on all fours. Main goal of Dr. Greene's treatment is to calm down stutterers of all ages, make life easy for them...