Word: outgrown
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...wondered about this wholesale revolution in his living habits. According to the CRIMSON, the decision to enter the plan or to stay where he was, meant for the member of '31 "the alternatives of either consenting to associate himself with an obliterating transition or remaining an exponent of an outgrown past...
Views & Policies: Loves his job, and has turned down a better one (Defense) to keep it. Has outgrown, though he has not found it necessary to repudiate, his earlier views, has won the confidence of many Commonwealth figures as an administrator of liberal intentions. His parliamentary manner is languid, sophisticated, earnest. Inheriting many messes, he has cleaned up some, e.g., the reinstatement of the exiled Kabaka of Buganda. Having fostered West Indian federation, Malayan self-rule, Gold Coast nationhood and Maltese integration, he has run into deep difficulty over Cyprus and Singapore, where his troubles are increased by the dictates...
...Canada's petroleum industry lay right ahead: a $350 million pipeline eastward and a $120 million line southward to carry natural gas to Eastern Canada and the Pacific Northwest. In British Columbia, the Aluminum Co. of Canada decided that the new $300 million Kitimat plant was already outgrown and launched a $200 million expansion...
...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...