Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...budget" theory to point out that just as businesses and families pare down expenditures to the bone and beyond, so ought governments to adopt a similar course. And the heads of federal, state, and city departments have generally bowed to this show of logic. But this is an outworn and economically unsound argument. The time for the government to retrench and take stock is not in a depression, but in times of prosperity. In a period when there is considerably little money passing about, when individuals and private businesses are postponing their buying and economizing in every...
...followed by other sections of the University, where no exam is ever graded on time, and where the rule is made to fit the case as it arises, with consequent loss of time and money. Sentimental lovers of the calm and gentle may grumble, and cling to their outworn ways; the cold, gem-like flame that animation the bowels of Converse will burn on, unflickering...
...postage and printing of balloting cards which experience has shown less than half the class respond to. Out of the 760 ballots sent out last year to members of the Class of 1933, only 372 were returned. If there were ever an appropriate moment to abolish such an outworn system, if only for economy's sake, it is the present. The Council has refused to avail itself of the opportunity...
There were also some mutterings about the sentimental value of traditions which we hooted down on the familiar grounds that outworn traditions are the enemies of progress. It was noticeable, too, that the voices raised in defense of ancient custom came from individuals who lived far away from Nassau Hall...
...failed peculiarly to distinguish between the two leading parties. What is important and remains so unaffected by the consequences of today's election is that the working principles of government which are assumed by both democrats and republicans and to some extent by the socialists also are challenged as outworn and inadequate for the necessities of the present day. The challenge in its immediate pressure is economic and political but it carries with it and drawn strength from spiritual dissatisfaction. Neither the Republican party nor the Democratic have shown themselves capable of recognizing the basic problems to say nothing...