Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home mortgages cannot be foreclosed without the court's permission. Nor can personal property bought on the installment plan, unless it is something like automobiles, that might be worn out in the meantime. (Even then, the courts will see that the serviceman gets a fair deal...
...first-half stabs through the middle of the Crimson first line of defense can be chalked up mostly to the difficulty which guards Hibbard and Stannard and quarterback Waters--who was getting his first dose of intercollegiate football--had in adjusting to their new locations. Once the newness had worn off and a few variations were thrown into the straight five-man line used during most of the first half, the powerful Cadet ground attack was slowed down to an easy shuffle...
Oldsters in Chicago newsrooms chortled with glee. Times had returned that they had thought were gone forever. Complete with pictures, "Xs" marking spots, big-time crime had busted loose on Page 1 again. All the worn but reliable cliches were dusted off: "Big black sedan . . . sawed-off shotguns . . . far-flung man hunt . . . cold-blooded killers." Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy, Bad Basil ("The Owl") Banghart and five other long-term incorrigibles had lammed from Illinois' supposedly escape-proof Stateville Prison...
Lucky Lover. With The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hugo became French writer No. 1, but his home life took a bad turn. Worn out with childbearing, Adèle became languid. Hugo's best friend, waspish Critic Sainte-Beuve, offered her his sympathy, spread the story that he was her lover. Hugo believed his wife innocent but began to get around a little himself. At the rehearsal of one of his plays he noticed that when Actress Juliette Drouet read the line, "Ah, what is it that fills the whole heart?" she turned "her large dark eyes...
...pictures of the Grepon, Europe's most famous rock climb, and the third ascent ever to be made of Pinacle Gulley in Mt. Washington's Huntington Ravine, the Mountaineering Club will open its ranks tonight to all those who would like to scale mountains by means other than well-worn trails...