Word: outworn
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...like TIME because in nearly every issue there is some statement, backed by irrefutable authority, which jolts me from an outworn rut of thought...
...apply to each particular case some of the results of the analysis which we have attempted to present. As the years roll by, experience will teach us to what classes of commodities and to what strata of society installment selling is economically applicable. In the course of time outworn methods will be discarded and new abuses will undoubtedly appear. Is it not the part of wisdom to separate the chaff from the grain, to be on our guard against the obvious dangers, and to eliminate one by one the improper practices until, precisely as in the case of our banking...
...reply of the Government, through various ministers, was simply that they had, in the words of Sir Austen Chamberlain, "practiced forbearance until forbearance is outworn...
Such are the implied enconiums heaped upon the system of travelling fellowships for graduates, also on instances of exchange professorships, and the like. It is hard to see why the same reasoning does not apply, and with equal force, to travelling scholarships for undergraduate. It is an outworn doctrine that the American undergraduate is a schoolboy needing constant discipline lest the desire for learning die entirely within his breast. He is being now, rather, subjected to contacts that are in themselves educational. Such is discussion with a competent tutor. Such, also, might well be study, for one year...
...Swiss-type Civil Code is supplemented by a new German-type Commercial Code; and a Penal Code based on that of Italy has been promulgated. The immense and revolutionary project of scrapping outworn Turkish law (based on the Koran) and substituting Western statutes thus stands today, accomplished...