Word: outworn
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Gourmands saw further possibilities in the impending war with an upland tribe whose three offences were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had rescued a beautiful damsel from suicide, loved her, and carried her to his secret cave...
Traditions. What are they? What do they mean? Are they the effete practices that thin-blooded men of degenerate stock use to bolster their sense of defeated pride? Are they outworn customs fit only for academic discussions? Are they part of the life-blood of the Nation? What are they, and are they worth following...
Silhouette. Let the cautious woman apply the following test. Dressed in a frock of an outworn mode, a pea dropped from her fork would roll to the table (or carpet) without interruption. But dressed in the 1928 silhouette, she might retrieve the pea in the ruffles at her neck, in a bow or a flounce on her skirt. Adopting the broken silhouette, dressmakers refer the dubious to modern architecture, pointing to jagged, jutting lines of skyscrapers...
...reformatory) have been in this direction. Is it possible that Governor Smith's proposal, which you hailed as "a departure almost as notable in criminology as was the substitution of vaccine for leeches in the treatment of smallpox"-is it possible that this proposal is based on the outworn and unsatisfactory principle of the Dark Ages ? I believe, and I hope...
...official hand is shown to cast an undergraduate shadow when the student advisory board concludes that the system of personal visits is outworn, replaceable by one that will recognize that certain of the functions of the old advisory boards are now in the hands of the proctors. The changes made by the Student Advisory Committee last spring have proved completely efficacious; it is to be hoped that the plans for the guidance of the class of 1932 will continue to advance an idea whose most substantial progress has been made within the year...