Word: outworn
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...general public, the technicalities that distinguish these degrees are unknown, and only the vague idea that a graduate with an S.B. is probably learned in Science, and an A.B. in Arts, exists. But the reasoning is sound enough; much more so than the desire to maintain an outworn tradition from the time when Latin and Greek were the two poles of a liberal education. On the practical side, the present system is sometimes not brought to the attention of students in Modern Languages until it is too late for them to add the extra quantity of the humanities that would...
...latest attack on current methods of education, and particularly on the existing system of College entrance examinations, comes from Dr. Little, foremost iconoclast of outworn tradition. The former president of Maine and Michigan Universities aims his shaft at an extremely vulnerable point when his discussion is confined primarily to the College Boards. A rising chorus of dissatisfaction is baying justly enough at the antiquated methods by which the secondary school graduate is forced to cut his way into college...
...awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...
...suffers in the theatrical version of him conceived by Playwright Bertram Bloch and performed by George Jessel. They make it quite clear that he balked at adultery not because of lofty scruples, but because he was afraid Neris would ultimately fling him to the crocodiles, her customary farewell to outworn lovers. Actor Jessel, swarthy, expressive young Hebrew, makes Joseph as glib, crafty and loquacious as a Jewish press agent, driving bargains which Potiphar, played by the splendidly silly Ferdinand Gottschalk, is too stupid to see, digging irrigation ditches because he does not believe in the pluvial generosity of the Egyptian...
...wife, daughter and three bleary cronies on an expedition to Paris. Playwright Marquis devises considerable fun with the vagaries of ignorant and besotten men in contact with an approachable countess and a haughty courtesan, but most of his intended climaxes are weak, he never gets very far from orthodox, outworn farce...