Word: outworn
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...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...
...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...