Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dogs, Glands. Diseased glands are responsible for many blue ribbons in dog shows. The Boston bulldog with his round head, short muzzle, short legs, suffers from abnormal thyroid and pituitary glands. In man this condition produces the dwarf; the skulls of dwarf and bulldog are strikingly similar. The kindly, overgrown St. Bernard, with his heavily wrinkled forehead, massive limbs, shows a pathological pituitary gland. The same condition in man produces the enormous heavily boned circus giant. Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard of Cornell University Medical College experimented with some of these pure blooded deformities. Crossing a famous Great Dane sire with...
...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...
...weed-overgrown continents of earth...
...nearly realized. It will take much further labor and effort to prepare the hard clay soil for the separate plant groups. A few beds are in fairly presentable shape, as samples of what should be done, but for the most part the soil is yet hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over 2,000 species are being sown this winter. The 10,000 species...
...suggestion made by the Student Council Committee on Education that the overgrown Harvard undergraduate body might with advantage be divided into groups analgous to the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge is worthy of serious consideration by the graduates who must have been well aware that the growth of the College during the last 25 years has been too rapid to permit satisfactory internal adjustments to keep pace...