Word: outgrowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rivals. Sometimes they may love their fathers too (ambivalence), but the fundamental hostility remains throughout childhood. (Later on girls often fall in love with their fathers.) This Oedipus complex-sets the pattern for a child's response to other persons throughout the rest of his life. Normal persons outgrow the Oedipus situation by the time they reach maturity. But weaker characters cannot tear themselves away from their parents, hence, "fall into neuroses...
...Federation but for some of its rich affiliates. Since then he has ably represented the Federation before Congressional committees and NLRB, in so doing has aroused the suspicions of some A. F. of L. executive councilmen, who feel that Attorney Padway's appetite for profitable publicity may outgrow the bounds befitting a hired hand...
...twelve his son Robert announced he would be a poet. E. W. Scripps thought he would outgrow it, gave the boy a newspaper training, and suddenly installed him at 21 as editor-in-chief of the Scripps papers. In 1922, E. W. Scripps picked a selfmade Hoosier, Roy Wilson Howard, then chairman of United Press, gave him to Son Robert as a partner...
...According to the adolescent philosophy which Willie Hearst was never to outgrow," Carlson & Bates report, "professors were the natural enemies of the students and the natural enemies of man. So in the Christmas season of 1885 he determined to put them in their place in a right regal manner. To each of his instructors he sent, elaborately done up as a Christmas gift, a large chamber pot with the recipient's name ornamentally inscribed in the bottom. The perpetrator of the lordly jest was easily discovered, and Willie Hearst's connection with Harvard ended forever...
However, Dr. Michael no longer uses x-rays on boys and girls under 18. He has them watch their diet and bowels, wash their faces well, on the expectation that most of them will outgrow their acne naturally. On acne patients between 18 and 22 years of age, he uses x-rays. In older patients he first makes a search for pelvic and gastrointestinal diseases. If he finds and cures such conditions, the acne usually disappears. If not, he resorts to x-rays; and with women, if nothing else works, to female sex hormones...