Word: outgrown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tremendous, indeed, were the changes in the Penn system during the 50 years in which Mr. Rea was associated with it. He began as a rodman in 1871, at a time when the Penn road had hardly outgrown its original (1846) charter which provided that it should extend from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh. Not only did he see the road pass through the greater part of the expansion which has made it a 12,000-mile system, but it was directly through his efforts that the Pennsylvania secured access to Manhattan. He planned a bridge across the Hudson from Jersey City...
That the University authorities are not exaggerating when they state in their appeals for funds for the new gymnasium that Harvard has outgrown Hemenway, seems borne out by the following letter found in the CRIMSON of January 25, 1904. Nearly everything that the writer sets forth in this letter written 25 years ago is applicable to the present situation...
...Obviously Harvard has outgrown the meagre quarters of our gymnasium. . . . The time has come. I believe, when Harvard herself should take in this matter a step consistent with her general progress...
...Boston; in 1816 a small building on Mason Street erected by means of a grant from the General Court was completed. In 1846 that building was sold and a building to house the growing Medical School was erected for the Medical Faculty. By 1883 the School had again outgrown its quarters and was moved into a new and larger building on Boylston Street thought suitable at the time for many years...
Club-Fellow readers recalled that Publisher Duval had announced a change of policy when he purchased the weekly last March (TIME, April 9, 16). "Gossip, innuendo and scandal," he pronounced outgrown. Under new management, The Club-Fellow would print "not a line or a word, an innuendo or a criticism from cover to cover, that can offend or displease." Almost immediately, it printed the "well-worn gossip of the "estrangement" of the President and Mrs. Coolidge...