Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corcoran, who Washington rumor said was slated for an Assistant Secretaryship of the Navy-although some said War. Meanwhile "The Cork" prowled about more secretively than ever, still in too much of a hurry to buy a new overcoat to replace the seedy out-at-seams chesterfield he has worn for nine years...
...oath to grave Henry Wallace. In a voice that reached to Iowa, Mr. Wallace said: "I do," and was Vice President. Now the plaza became really still. Mr. Roosevelt moved forward. The Chief Justice had jerked off his skullcap. Mr. Hughes stated the oath and the President repeated the worn, full, old words: "I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Into the room came the first witness, a slender man whose shoulders stooped with 69 years, striding gravely in a worn, shiny blue serge suit, his hair silvery-white, his face pale as candle wax, his brown eyes a little sharp under his salt-&-pepper eyebrows. Little Sol Bloom scrambled down from his eminence to be photographed with Secretary of State Hull. Mr. Hull sat down, began to read his prepared statement, his long pale hands trembling slightly...
Last week, on the twelfth floor of the Institute, a hundred noted psychiatrists and neurologists gathered in the library, wandered into the small, wood-paneled room that houses the only Freud collection in the world, to peer at the worn volumes, the sarcastic marginal notes, the underscorings and brilliant comments...
...experiment designed to 1) improve wool clips, 2) find new uses for cotton, 500 cotton coats (at 90? apiece) were shipped to Wyoming this week to be worn by sheep as a protection against post-shearing cold. Feature: like maternity dresses, the coats may be let out for lamb-heavy ewes...