Word: outworn
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...recognize that all their free hours are not needed for relaxation; and they will then begin to use some of their time for study. This was the case with the Scotch farmers of the nineteenth century who learned to use their long winter evenings for study instead of for outworn amusements, and thus developed one of the most cultured middle classes ever known. There is no reason why the modern working classes cannot do the same...
Loughran's "end" was a percentage of the gate receipts in excess of Sharkey's guarantee; and less than 8,000 persons felt like paying to see a fight which could decide but one thing: which of two outworn heavyweights was due for immediate oblivion. Loughran, a quiet, well-liked fellow, had never been a powerful threat in the ring since he stepped up from the light-heavyweight class. Sharkey knocked him out four years ago. And now talkative, wealthy Sharkey, only three months ago the champion, had left his last claim to importance on the floor...
...formed an Editorial Employes Association, voted to send a representative to the final code hearings in Washington. Their complaint: "Between exorbitant tolls of syndicates and press services and the unionized requirements of the mechanical trades, newspaper editorial employes have been the most notoriously exploited of all producer groups. The outworn creed of rugged individualism has been enough. The sorry story is that this creed has meant for them a drugged individualism...
...schoolhouse. . . . It was the companion of the log cabin. Both were the magnificent creations of a pioneer people fighting a great frontier, not of physical hardships alone, but of intellectual sparseness as well. . . . Literature and art should celebrate their glory, and there we should leave them. They are the outworn instruments of an earlier...
...overcoming another outworn prejudice it seems that the Athletic Association should be able to bring about a more intensive use of the gymnasium, lighten the individual financial cost and at the same time increase their own receipts...