Word: outworn
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...object to marathon races as outworn Green traditions. Insull is the only true Greek marathon runner. That marathons should take the place of "Sunday Driver" cars for the purpose of getting the seating office flunky to the green suburbs, following in a long line the sticky men with hot feet and chewing gum, is a misfortune. If it takes more than two and a half hours to circle 26 miles of Newtons in the broiling sun, the tour is not worth while, and what does a race of 26 miles 300 yards prove for the sporting world...
...have found a refuge in American universities and colleges. This will confirm the opinion long held in wide circles that our colleges are only stagnant back-waters in the rapid flow of modern life, dedicated as ever to obsolete faiths and lost causes. They cling, for instance, to the outworn notion of liberty and give shelter to thinkers and scholars whom the iron broom of Mussolini, Stalin and Hitler has swept out of their native lands. New York Times...
...Downright Judicial Blunder!" screamed a bulletin from the Nazi Party official news bureau. "We demand a fundamental reform of our judicial system. To avert another such decision German Justice must be purged of outworn, alien and liberal conceptions...
...nearly so angry about this, however, as is that other champion of outworn traditions in spelling, Professor Charles Townsend Copeland (known as Copey, and to headline writers as Copy or Coppy...
...Walls of Gold," the current attraction at Keith's Boston, is another story of a woman who married the wrong man for the wrong reason; and there is certainly nothing new in the picture that could excuse the repetition of a plot that was outworn when Mary Pick ford was in the silence. The only claim that the producers might advance in its favor would be that the acting is out of the ordinary. And this is not the case, for Sally Eilers, she of the perfect profile, contributes nothing that has not been seen before and Norman Foster...