Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West has also dabbled in smellies, but seems to have outgrown them before they ever had a chance. Scented motion pictures were tried at the Swiss Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, one film aired 37 different smells in 35 minutes. One of the technicians responsible, a Swiss named Hans Laube, stayed on in the U.S., but in 1946 disgustedly left for Europe since, he said, there were no takers for the smellies in America...
...apparently the revolution had outgrown Mother Strong. Last week New York's Daily Worker glowingly observed that for her reporting on China, 63-year-old Anna Louise Strong really deserved the Pulitzer Prize. Four days later, the Kremlin made a curt announcement: "The notorious agent and American journalist, A. L. Strong . . . was arrested by organs of the state security on Feb. 14. Miss Strong is incriminated in espionage and subversive activities against the Soviet Union...
...tolerant that he has outgrown all old-fashioned convictions of inherent right and wrong, good and evil...
...Wisconsin's centennial year there are 18,623 students enrolled at Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...innocent remarks as "I am probably the least learned person around this table, so I have thought of this article in terms of what the ordinary person would understand." In a two-hour wrangle with Indian and Russian delegates, she insisted that such words as "caste" and "class" were "outgrown." "We admit caste and class distinctions do exist, but we don't try to emphasize them," she declared firmly...