Word: outworn
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...sacrifice its content to the clamour of neutral exporters. That will mean initiative on both sides and, if as with Germany, initiative is translated into outrage, the inevitable consequences will be war. From this aspect, at least, America has nothing to gain by insisting upon the retention of an outworn system...
...same time it makes us thoughtful. We feel the seriousness of the coming months. We know that the good of the nation will demand even greater moral and mental strength than was demanded by the war. To keep the world safe, to substitute better ideals for those that are outworn, to protect the weak, to direct the powerful, to build social machinery that will serve all classes and all nations without injustices--here are some of the tasks confronting us. Boston Traveler...
...till the sum of accumulated hate will end in equal destruction. It is the law of the mob, which strives to repay by brutal sin the commission of a brutal sin. The talonic justice that demands suffering for the offender equal to that which he has inflicted is an outworn creed, fit only for the equity of barbarians...
...scarcely needs statement, and I am sure that a much less acute observer than Mr. Lazarus believes himself to be would see that. The statement that Hughes draws his support throughout the country from the Anglophobes is plainly taken from the New York Times, which persists in an outworn myth in spite of the activities of some Hughes supporters, as Mr. Roosevelt, and in spite of the fact that it has no political significance, either practical or ethical...
...against what, are we thus "adequately" to prepare? Have we attained such internal unity among out sixty or more nationalities, have we even utilised one-half of the potentiality of such nationalities in building up world federation, that we should now take up in despair this old man's outworn creed and method from the war ruined hands of Europe...