Word: timeworn
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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...
...device to take the place of the timeworn chalk and blackboard or checkerboard for use in football skull practice has been developed by Mr. N. W. Fradd, Director of Hemenway Gymnasium and instructor in Physical Education...
...famous theory of Companionate Marriage which emerged but slightly crippled by Bishop Manning's broadside, and is soon to approach the rostrum under the protection of the astute Bertrand Russell. While companionate marriage gropes for a footing midway between the antipodal theories of Trial Marriage and the customary timeworn marriage, Mr. Adams is bolstering up the latter against the radicalism of the former. A sabbatical system offers a field of compromise between extremes. Whatever may be the solution, these suggestions are recognizant not only of the fact that divorce maintains a high batting average but also that, as Havelock Ellis...