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...gentleman inherits a country estate which contains a fine example of a maze, somewhat overgrown and neglected. He decides to restore it; after a few attempts he roots it up instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spooks | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

...great, stupendous task devolves upon me. It seems that for a moment eloquence has gone to sleep and cobwebs have overgrown the brain, searching about for a Cicero. My task is Herculean. It takes a man with the wisdom of Solomon, the thought of Shakespeare and the oratory of Patrick Henry to properly introduce this Friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTE: Friend of Man | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Adolph Roome III, 14, more than 6 ft. tall, weight 235 lb., overgrown apparently from the disfunction of his pituitary body, a ductless gland which controls growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Big Dispute | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...naturally followed the ideas of the old world and has never forgotten her heritage. Although rebellious at times, and always inclined, to the experimental in education, she has ever found the old ways better in the fundamental principles. The University of Chicago, founded upon Western ideas, is still an overgrown child, conscious of its own physical strength but lacking in the historical background, traditions, and heritage of the older American schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 9/21/1929 | See Source »

...afternoon the doctors were summoned and there in the sunshine lay a monstrous dead bulldog, by now twice the weight of her litter mate, a dog fit for baying at enormous moons. In the burning heat her heart and lungs had failed to function for her abnormal, pituitarily overgrown body. Dead though she was, however, she had proved it possible to grow giants in a laboratory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Harvard's Bulldog | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

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