Word: datedness
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Dated Hopes. Honest Translator Bakshy makes no attempt to gild the mediocrity of his choices, but he holds out some hope for the future of Soviet drama. Says he:
Unfortunately for his thesis, his most hopeful words for the future have already been somewhat dated by the recent culture purge. Translator Bakshy writes "of a changing attitude in official circles. . . . Playwrights . . . and some theater directors . . . who only a few years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life...
A life span of 184 years will tell on a house as thoroughly used as this old colonial structure. Much of the dated furniture now in place over the library was added by one of the four owners. The first of these, and the householder who played a large part...
Holdout. In New Rochelle, N.Y., an elderly woman boarded a train, told the conductor, "I didn't buy this ticket today," gave him one dated September 1898.
Such a statement, like countless others of its dated ilk, puts the employer on a humanitarian pedestal at the expense of the realities of the situation--which in this case indicate that the University was in its premature action merely trying to avoid the annoyance and public embarrassment of a...