Word: timeworn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble to complete the form, only slightly better than seven per cent conformed to the stereotype of Harvard indifference by professing to think that the method of selecting a Council made no difference at all. The response to the poll may indeed, have started to pull apart the timeworn thesis that the undergraduate is "a most indifferent...
...timeworn wheeze among U.S. movie producers is that a Pine-Thomas picture run backwards would entertain an audience as much as the same film shown in due order. It is the standard opening for the observation that however the film is run it will be a money maker...
...Almost all of the Via Guicciardini, an old street lined with timeworn houses...
Lassie Come Home (M.S.M.), as written by the late Major Eric Knight, was one of the best children's books in years. M.G.M.'s version will delight not only children, but any adult with a healthy childhood memory. Lassie celebrates nothing more profound than the simple and timeworn relationship of a boy and a dog. It dramatizes the uncomplicated goodness of an animal in a complicated human world...
That the new cruzeiro system would bring immediate relief seemed dubious. In effect, Brazil would get not only new money, but more money. Only gradually will the new 10, 20 and 50 centavo pieces, the new, uniform-size cruzeiro bills supplant the timeworn milreis. The new coins, copper, aluminum and zinc, minted since Oct. 12 are being released immediately, but surcharged milreis bills will for a time serve as cruzeiro bills...