Word: timeworn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important in the development of personality." Most aggressive, most disobedient and greatest social lion among the five is Annette. Most popular is Yvonne who receives more attention from the others than she seeks. Most socially balanced is Marie. When one of the quins...
Last year, the H. A. A. tossed timeworn tradition into the Charles and brought to Dillon Field House a non-graduate coach whose only claims were that facts that he was a sporting gentleman whose teams produced victories in almost monotonous succession. While hoary graduates tore their scanty locks in anguish, Coach Harlow arrived in Cambridge and reorganized the entire football administration...
...League of America was moved to come to the defense of the harassed New Theatre League. Declared Vice President Elmer Davis (History of the New York Times, Friends of Mr. Sweeney) of the Authors' League: "The tactics employed to suppress presentation of Waiting for Lefty are familiar and timeworn. Technicalities of the fire laws, obsolete statutes from the old 'blue laws' period, red tape in connection with licenses -all of these are used to bar the play from theatres or to stop performances. But the real issue of freedom of opinion and the right to express...
Meanwhile last week the Better Business Bureau of New York City, reviewing the business year ended May 1, reported that promoters of the timeworn "sell and switch" racket* were still active, that "gyp" stock vendors had continued to flourish as of old under the Securities Act largely because the Federal Government had been backward about criminal prosecutions. Declared the Bureau: "An examination of the registrations under the Federal law reveals that by far the greater percentage of registrations was of highly speculative enterprises. Most promoters of such enterprises are deterred but little by responsibilities of civil liability which, under...