Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...income with it, where built-in safeguards protect the economy from severe blows, U.S. industry has good reason to believe that its markets will continue to grow with the nation. After the arms program tapers off, there is plenty work to be done rebuilding the nation's outgrown schools, its worn-out highways, and building all manner of projects to supply the growing population's needs...
This week, his bitterness outgrown, ex-Captain Fuchida, 49, was visiting the U.S. and preparing for a new life-as a Christian missionary. His sponsor and future partner is the Rev. Elmer Sachs, director of Sky Pilots International, a project for getting aviation-minded youth interested in religion as well as aircraft. But the man who indirectly converted him is another airman, ex-Sergeant Jacob DeShazer, a former Doolittle raider who is now working as a Free Methodist missionary in Japan...
...Alben's lasting political credit, he was born poor (Nov. 24, 1877), in a two-story log house in the one-crop tobacco country near Lowes, Ky. He was the eldest of eight children, and his father's favorite. When Alben had outgrown the little Lowes school, his father loaded the family and their possessions into a single wagon and, with the cow trailing behind, moved to Clinton, Ky. so Alben could go to Marvin College. Alben worked his way through Marvin as janitor (years later a wag posted a sign on the lawn: "Barkley Swept Here...
...advertisements inviting correspondence." Said the weekly: its circulation had grown too fat for it "to monitor [the ads] properly." In his Manhattan office, Publisher Jack Cominsky was more blunt. "These people," said he, "should be going to psychiatrists. Their ads represent an aspect of the magazine which it has outgrown...
...palship was not the only thing S.R.L. had outgrown. By adding reviews of phonograph records, art, theater, radio and movies and articles on travel and international affairs, S.R.L. had become more than a bookish magazine. Its circulation had risen from 32,000 to 110,000 in a decade and it was solidly in the black. With last week's issue, S.R.L. officially noted its broader outlook; it clipped the of Literature off its cover title. S.R.L.'s editors wanted to call the magazine the Saturday Review when it was founded in 1924, but the title was then used...