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