Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machines. Pre-war games used to glean an inordinate number of foreign coins, carefully shaped discs of tinfoil, and Louisiana sales-tax tokens. But the application of electronic research to the coin slot has made it so selective that it is now apt to balk at a well-worn Buffalo nickel unless it is carefuly coaxed into position. Other complicated circuits have eliminated a former unfortunate tendency for the machines to run away and start distributing free games indiscriminately...
...come to you, my people. His fiery eyes do not flash through clouds of incense or from altar candles . . . This new god is not a stone statue worn smooth by the kisses of the faithful-he was not born in heaven . . . The new god is born from earth and blood-he strides ahead, and under the thunder of his steps the globe trembles from East to West. This is the red god. The Seine shudders at his impact, and tries to break its banks. Westminster trembles before him like Jericho, and across the green ocean his red shadow falls...
...order. An occupational therapist calls around to give lessons in making leather belts, wallets, rag dolls, etc. The Board of Education sends a teacher for four hours a week. If necessary, the hospital furnishes drugs, lends bed, sheets and bedpans. For a mother who gets worn out with nursing, or just needs to get away from the sick child once in a while, the hospital sends a housekeeper or a babysitter...
...little as one-millionth of an ounce of metal can be detected in the oil. The scientists can tell by measuring the oil's radioactivity just how much the ring has worn-and therefore how efficient...
...whom Sherlock Holmes would never have existed, Professor Joseph Bell. It was Bell's favorite trick (and later, Holmes's) to guess who and what any patient was without being told. "This man," he would declare, "is a left-handed cobbler . . . You'll obsairve, gentlemen, the worn places on the corduroy breeks where a cobbler rests his lapstone? The right-hand side, you'll note, is farr more worn than the left...