Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administration building at Salt Lake City's Municipal Airport was crowded, as usual, one morning last week. Friends and relatives jammed into its tiny, outgrown waiting room, impatient to greet passengers aboard a United Air Lines' DC-4, enroute from New York to San Francisco. Aboard the big air coach were two executives of Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. and their wives, on their way to a conference in Salt Lake City. There were also five women, members of the famed 379-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They had been on the choir's summer tour of Europe (TIME...
...Dixon-Yates contract, complex though it was, grew out of a simple set of facts. Memphis urgently needed more power; it had long since outgrown TVA facilities. President Eisenhower was opposed to the continued expansion of TVA, which had already spread far beyond its originally conceived limits. Dixon-Yates was his answer-and it was consistent with his policy of local power development "with the cooperation of the Administration in Washington . . . devoted to the principle of decentralized government and the principle of states' rights...
...hope to have everything ready by next fall," Stewart Stearns, Radcliffe Business Manager, said "since we certainly have outgrown our present telephone system...
...everywhere, and that therefore we must behave to them as to members of our own family. It does seem to me that this understanding can grow with his growing experience of life, and though . . . there may be some difficulties, I feel this is not an understanding which will be outgrown with manhood...
...master's degree, Radcliffe College has had a graduate school. Since that starting fall the school has expanded to 350 women, and has become one of the world's finest graduate schools. But in the process of outgrowing its tiny office in Fay House, it has also outgrown its usefulness as a separate unit from Harvard...