Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire country shows that only one and a half pounds have been collected per person-a woefully small figure. But Massachusetts, on the same basis, has contributed a mere quarter pound-four ounces-for every man, woman, and child. To put it graphically, this means about one worn baby carriage tire for each person. And when one realizes that our nation will be seriously handicapped unless a million tons of scrap rubber are collected, our total returns so far look pretty ridiculous...
...again, it is a simple thing for every student to go over his belongings and find any and all pieces of scrap rubber. You'll be surprised how much turns up once you get going. A few pieces of rubber tubing from a chemistry course, a pair of sneakers worn out by four-days-a-week physical training, a used bicycle tire, a rubber seat cushion, an out-of-style rubberized raincoat-there is no end to the number of articles that will come to the surface. It's worth taking two minutes of your time to look over your...
Among them was Harry Hopkins. He tapped Somervell for the biggest relief job in the country, the New York City WPA, which had worn out two administrators, including old Hugh Johnson. At that time the red-bordered Workers' Alliance was shouting "Get rid of Ridder" (Johnson successor) and Somervell went in wryly offering a new battle cry: "Sink Somervell...
...Maintaining industrial equipment. One massive 9½-ft., 2,400-lb. Diesel crankshaft was worn at its bearing points. Wartime replacement was impossible; in any case, would have taken twelve weeks. A hot-metal sprayer, using 45 lb. of steel wire, resurfaced the worn shaft in ten hours...
...Tomorrow will probably be one of the best-loved novels of the summer. It comfortably exemplifies how little 40 years have changed the rules for those amiable romances, published around the turn of the century, which have worn through several rebindings in provincial libraries. Like them, Miss Field's book has enough carpentry to chair an idle haunch through many hours, enough sincere sentimentality to bring moisture to idle eyes and unguentine to idle hearts. In recognition of changed times, it is tinged with "class-consciousness," but not of a sort to disturb the tenderest digestion...