Word: outgrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's most elegant café, the Mayfair Yacht Club. Last week two things made it appear that his celebrity- like that of Helen Morgan and Jimmy Durante who preceded him from the orchidaceous gloom of cabarets into the glare of Broadway and the cinema- would presently outgrow Manhattan. It was rumored that he was soon to leave the Mayfair Yacht Club for Hollywood where his wit, properly censored, would provide an element thus far missing (see p. 30) in musical productions. Last week also, to the amazement of his admirers who had never for a moment supposed that...
...system in performing the function in question depends on the maturity of the tutor. I do not have to tell you that most of the tutorial work in Harvard College is done by the less mature tutors. It has been said that this is a stage which we shall outgrow in time, but there is a danger in being too optimistic on this point. As a man advances in his Department, the tendency is to use his services more and more largely for course instruction, and to cut down on the tutorial load that he has to carry...
...from Dean Hanford, explaining the stand which the Student Council and the administration have taken with regard to subway rioting. The threat of punitive measures in this instance is unfortunately reminiscent of that shiny strap behind the bathroom door, but there are apparently still those who have yet to outgrow the urge to carve their initials on the furniture...
...only admit but assert the great value of the Bible as the time-sifted literature of a great people. Its legends and mythologies are mines of wealth in the understanding of primitive minds, which include the child minds of our own time. And no age will outgrow the stimulation and enthusiasm of the noble prophetic writings. But that does not involve the acceptance of their wonder tales as literal truth. Belief in the Jonah-Whale story could not make a man any better morally, and he must stultify his intelligence in accepting...