Word: outgrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Painter Chapin got fed up with Greenwich Village and outgrew his own imitations of Cezanne. He found a $4-a-month log cabin in northern New Jersey, holed in there for five decisive years. Chapin emerged from the hills with portraits, as sharp and solid as plowshares, of the hard-bitten farm people among whom he had lived. Shortly after his return, in Manhattan, Chapin happened to see a young Negro girl named Ruby Green singing in the Hall Johnson Choir and did her portrait (as Ruby Greene-absent-minded Painter Chapin misspelled her name-she now has a small...
English 160, "Drama Since Ibsen," twice outgrew its assigned lecture halls, and finally lodged in Sanders Theatre, making Sanders to lecturers what the Palace was to Vaudeville. The reason for 160's sudden sprouting was Robert Chapman, Assistant Professor of English. His intense interest in things theatrical has drawn both dilletante and serious student with equal force...
Lesson from the Past. The report heavily underlines a profound change that has taken place in the U.S. economy in the past ten years during which the U.S. outgrew its own raw-material supplies. Americans will have a hard time adjusting themselves to the fact that in some respects they now live in a have-not nation...
...time, there were other graduates, and the school soon outgrew its one classroom. Gregg added courses in bookkeeping, typing, and business English. He started a summer school, correspondence courses, began publishing his own shorthand manuals. By 1912 he had thousands of pupils around the world...
...Henderson, a jungle-born son of missionaries, dropped in from nearby White Plains to see what the little magazine was like, the Wallaces hired him as business manager, soon made him an editor. They later hired Harold Lynch, an assistant Episcopal rector, to handle the money. The Digest soon outgrew the pony shed, and spread all over Pleasantville. The mail got so heavy that the town had to have a bigger post office. By 1929 the seven-year-old Digest had 216,190 subscribers and was grossing more than...