Word: outworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These perseverent jalopy-lovers are refusing to put their vehicles into hibernation for the winter and to await the usual rash of outworn rattlotraps which breaks out every spring in Cambridge...
...known where they will strike next? Even now, privacy in the College rooms is an outworn concept. Eventually when you come home, the little men won't leave. They will stay there 4 hours a day, sleep in your beds and use up your toothpaste. Then the revolution will be at hand, and human rights, will disappear in the wake of bloody violence...
...young Leland, in memory of the boy who died just before he reached college age. Senator Stanford expressed the desire that the university should bring intellectual life to the West and add to the vigor of the Western experience. He wanted a college that was free from the outworn traditions of older universities, especially one that would, in his words, "qualify its students for personal success and direct usefulness in life." He felt that colleges had become too far removed from American life. The new university would try to add practical knowledge to cultural experience...
...opinion, from observation, that the conservative element, in whatever branch of organized society it may serve, never serves intelligently. For a prime recent example, consider the conservative element of the Republican Party, the diehards and the standpatters who listened to the soothsayers and the high priests of their own outworn political philosophy rather than to the people. Apparently they never learn anything, for just a few weeks ago they turned thumbs down on Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., a man who could help lead the Republican Party out of its slough of despond, and a Harvard graduate who would probably disagree...
Worn-out clothing and outworn books will flow from College dorms into the hands of Brooks House canvassers this week as PBH opens a drive to collect these items for distribution in Europe. Working with the Harvard Food Relief Committee, PBH workers will visit every student room before next Thursday...