Word: outgrowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really a limited monarchy. This statement is, perhaps, an exaggeration, but it is indicative of the trend of the times. Our national growth in industry, population, and size is fast breaking down the skeleton of legislative government. It seems inevitable that this increasing burden of management will eventually outgrow our present legislative system. Accordingly two alternatives remain; resting responsibility with the Executive or inventing a new method of representation through legislation. At present the former is rapidly gaining recognition, and no overtures of any consequence have been made for the latter. People have come to distrust the practicability of making...
...professional or business career, and the practice of the law itself opens business opportunities. Moreover, I have heard it said and seen it demonstrated, that the successful lawyer, so long as his mentality remains intact, is seldom if ever voluntarily retired. He never becomes obsolete; his business does not outgrow him. Even after he becomes unable to practice actively his name, reputation and opinions continue to have material value...