Word: overgrown
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Rookie Hartung's home run the first time up did nothing to stop the fast-growing Hartung legend. About all anybody really knew about Clint Hartung was that he is an overgrown, 24-year-old farm boy from Hondo, Texas. On an Army Air Forces team last year, he had pitched and won 25 games, lost none, and had batted .567. In the story-slim days of spring training, that was enough for baseball writers. They seldom wrote a story of which Hartung was not the hero. One newsman broke down and confessed: "Hartung is human. He is, after...
...logs of a log cabin. Huge rough steps lead to a courtyard. Inside is another wall, and inside that a stone-roofed vault. The man-made islets are separated by shallow canals, some of them choked with tumbled blocks. The citadel itself is in fair condition, though so overgrown with jungle that few details are visible...
...distill these bales into useful conclusions, scientists are turning to giant calculating machines which eat up equations as quickly as small boys gobble peanuts. Last week Harvard University dedicated its new Computation Laboratory, devoted solely to overgrown abaci, their design, construction, care & feeding. Two hundred scientists, engineers, mathematicians gathered to hear the latest plans, and to yearn for more calculators. Mark I, Harvard's first, was operating. The electronic entrails of Mark II, under construction for the Navy, were still in the semiassembled stage...
...book utterly dulls a bright satiric idea, and the songs, with the quaint exception of a Hibernian lay describing a game of seraphic hurley,* are easy to forget. But in small ways, Toplitzky often goes over big. Comic Frank Marlowe does a couple of good wide turns as an overgrown hayseed; Hoofer Walter Long manages to make tap dancing look interesting; Gus Van is delightful as the Irish immigrant, who calls Notre Dame Coach Frank Leahy the day he lands, wishes him "a foi,ne year of Catholic action...
City College's President Harry N. Wright, a mild-mannered, meticulous Quaker who loves problems, never runs short of them. Examples: cramming the overgrown student body into buildings designed for half the present enrollment; trying to counteract the slanders and slights that City College sometimes receives because of its 85% Jewish student body...