Word: worn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exchange would be administered by students receiving pay for their work. They would be responsible for coordinating the activities of the various House organizations on a college wide basis, and could use the exchange's slight profits to buy new furnishing in wholesale quantities and to repair worn pieces of furniture. This exchange would prevent the men who sell their furniture at term's end from taking an unnecessary loss, and assure an ample supply of decently priced furniture for the beginning of the next school year...
...bottoms of the pyjamas without the tops are usually worn in the East, and the tops without the bottoms for some reason in America...
...hurry to see the Russians. For two days he was "too busy." Finally he set a date for a 10 a.m. meeting. The Russians showed up an hour early because they were on Russian time. They were shepherded into a small waiting room, allowed to cool their well-worn heels a half hour...
...have been put out to pasture long ago. Even saddled with Technicolor (about as subtle as a show card) and ridden by Old Hand Joel McCrea (about as expressive as lumber), The Virginian makes a bad run of it. Most to blame is the story; its gingham charm has worn thin. And as in most Westerns, acting and direction are as lifeless as a frontier cemetery. Even when the Virginian cracks his famed whip-line-"When you call me that, smile"-not Badman Trampas (the ubiquitous Brian Donlevy), but the audience complies...
...joys and torments of family life. He wrote daily, rigorously, from nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. No Victorian reader of Dickens' works ever wept so copiously over them as Dickens himself. "I have had a good cry," he once wrote to Forster. "I am worn to death. I was obliged to lock myself in when I finished yesterday, for my face was swollen to twice its proper size. . . ." "Between ourselves," he gravely informed another friend, "Paul [Dombey] is dead. He died on Friday night about ten o'clock...