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Word: timeworn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken hot weather to pressure me to write this. Weather, hot or cold, grads, "dressed" or not, I think that the powers that be ought to unbend and abolish the timeworn "Little Lord Fauntleroy" ruling. L. W. Feasler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coats Off! | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...such timeworn stunts, Boston's seven daily and four Sunday newspapers were desperately trying to win new readers; they needed them. For some, circulation had already slumped badly: the Post, after raising its price from 3? to 5?, had lost 70,000 of its 400,000 readers in a year. Even the morning Herald and its afternoon sister, the Traveler, reputedly Boston's biggest moneymakers, had lost 40,000, and their profits had fallen 20% to $753,000. All the others were having a hard time just holding their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: For Proper Bostonians | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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