Word: timeworn
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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...
...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...