Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misleading words-"non-scientific Dublin, of all places"-in an otherwise excellent account,' your reporter on Schrodinger [TIME, Feb. 10] needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...
...wild rumors let loose by a reported U.S. decision on export subsidies pointed up the need for a new U.S.-China policy to replace the outworn mediation policy abandoned last month when George Marshall left China. TIME Correspondent Frederick Gruin then cabled: "It looks as if the book of mediation is now definitely closed. A new book must be opened, and its cover must be turned in Washington. The Secretary of State and the U.S. people must choose one of three possible policies toward China-a policy of confusion and aimless drift; a policy of complete withdrawal, which influential voices...
...Engineer Jackson wanted to get technical, he could have rattled off any number of the bewildering rules that govern his brotherhood and the rail operators. Most of the rules were 40 years old, or older; many were outworn; many no longer made sense. It was a rare railroader who knew them all, or understood 75% of them...
...spring a housewife's fancy turns to thoughts of cleaning. Britain in the wake of war was as restless and ruthless as any of them. In her musty old attic many an outworn, heart-warming trinket of tradition was being dusted off, examined and discarded in the harsh light of accuracy and efficiency...
...debacle of the London conference; the grim, plain, unheeded words of our scientists regarding the future of the atomic bomb; the President's absurd advocacy of universal peacetime, military conscription; the stupid reliance of our military leaders on outworn techniques of warfare; the tragic lack of statesmanship, realism and vision on the part of the world's government leaders in spite of the obvious desire of the world's peoples for a genuine peace and not an armed and jittery truce-all these portents mean but one thing: that the Third World War is in the making...