Word: outgrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently a man could be a hero at home so long as he did not leave home. There was, of course, talk that Tammany Hall had "laid down" on the man that tried to outgrow it. But no such talk came from the man. He knew that people think differently about their Governor and their President; that New York City's new registration was huge; that politics is not an exact science...
Frank Bartlette Willis, farmer's son, was "home grown" even more consciously and thoroughly than his outstanding contemporaries, Warren G. Harding and James M. Cox. He did not live to outgrow Ohio, like a William Howard Taft or a Theodore Elijah Burton. He would have resented the suggestion that he could ever outgrow Ohio. He died as he could only have wished to die, of red fire and political excitement, just after shaking the hand and naming the name of every member of the Delaware Kiwanis Club. Governor and Senator he had been. Anti-Saloon League champion and lion...
...later acts these two appear as better actors, for the playwright gives them four years in which to outgrow the advantages of a Yale education. Miss Anderson shines equally brilliantly as girl and woman, in fact, the more so for having to do both; lately her part has been taken by Miss Bunyea. Miss Moores provides the happy ending in the approved fashion, while Miss DeMe and Mr. Horton perform their superfluities satisfactorily...
...philosopher, however, who has seen golf in its true light, and recognized its importance in retarding the affairs of the world. Mr. George Bernard Shaw recognized in the golfing propensities of statesmen an unmistakable sign of the immaturity of mankind. Seventy years, he says, are barely long enough to outgrow the childish pastimes of games and frivolities. In order for man to become sufficiently mature to solve intelligently the problems of civilization he must increase his span of life; he must finally outgrow golf and all of the meaningless trifling that it represents...
...said that the interested student will have intelligence enough to find out for himself what he must do by inquiring at the College office. Unfortunately the majority of Freshmen come to college with a distorted notion of college life so that they do not outgrow their prep school prejudices against education until well on in their college career. For this reason we believe it to be vitally important that the members of every incoming class have again and again explained to them the rules and requirements for obtaining recognition of scholastic attainment either in the form of prizes and debates...