Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suffice to say that we just don't believe the crab meat caused whatever discomfort the Secretary felt. He can't prove it did and TIME fell into a groove worn too deep by repetition and blamed an old grief-catcher, the crab...
...Most widespread U. S. mental disorder, according to expert opinion, is dementia praecox, or schizophrenia (split personality). Dr. Dayton's statistics tell a different story. Mental disease No. 1 is senile psychosis, the madness of old age. Causes: hardened arteries, threadbare nervous system, worn-out brain, tired heart, "outrageous fortune." From 1917 to 1933, there was an average of 2,000 senile psychotics per 100,000 population; schizophrenics averaged only...
...disappointingly told; 4) the Emperor Tiberius, "a martyr to man's habit of tyrannizing over his fellowman." The four with the U. S. as their setting are studies respectively of cowardice, burnt-out genius, sexual fever as a product of Mississippi Valley boredom, acute alcoholism. The Coward, well-worn in plot and people, is psychologically good & scary; The Defective is rather sketched than brought off. The Bad Girl describes provincial ennui and sexual despair with a good deal of intensity. The Drunkard, the best thing in the book, is a scalding and ghastly story of speak-easy newswriters...
...different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...
...Highland Association was rallying Scottish members of Parliament to protest a recent War Office order: "No more kilts will be issued until the war is over." For almost two centuries Scotsmen have struggled against what they regard as repeated efforts by the War Office to abolish their national dress, worn by the Argyll and Sutherland, Gordon, Cameron and Sea forth Highlanders and the redoubtable Black Watch.* Scots now have to admit the War Office's contention that the kilt is poor protection against poison gas; that its pleats harbor cooties; that when wet it galls the knees, when...