Word: timeworn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...
...famous theory of Companionate Marriage which emerged but slightly crippled by Bishop Manning's broadside, and is soon to approach the rostrum under the protection of the astute Bertrand Russell. While companionate marriage gropes for a footing midway between the antipodal theories of Trial Marriage and the customary timeworn marriage, Mr. Adams is bolstering up the latter against the radicalism of the former. A sabbatical system offers a field of compromise between extremes. Whatever may be the solution, these suggestions are recognizant not only of the fact that divorce maintains a high batting average but also that, as Havelock Ellis...
Great oaks, says the age-old and timeworn proverb in effect, are the result of little acorns, and it might be added, acorns nurtured under suitable conditions. Just so in literature great movements spring from relatively small beginnings aided by favorable outward circumstances, and while I hesitate to call the efforts of the writers of early seventeen hundreds small, yet they were but as the bird compared to the burst of bloom which appeared toward the middle of the century...
...after "Life Lines" and similar pages in other magazines, is only mediocre in its remarks, with now and then a dash of brilliancy to relieve the monotony. The jokes, short articles, and longer sketches often exhibit a talent truly surprising in a college publication. Many are forced; many are timeworn; and many lack the truth of real humor, but these are soon forgotten in the keen enjoyment of the majority in which the friendly satire and irresponsible wit is truly delightful...
...Miller of Providence. Mr. Miller has spent nearly two years of painstaking study and experiment on this work. And the result of it has been that even to the eye of the trained observer our collection has all the freshness and glow no less than the timeworn hue of original monuments of antiquity...