Word: datedness
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Newspapers reported that millions of textbooks were on the presses-but Russian children would not have enough books for all their courses. Their textbooks about the outside world were not only propaganda, but dated propaganda. The geography book that children will study this year was published in 1934. This is...
It had lost something, of course; but much of its humor still clicked and much of its melodrama still crackled. It caught the atmosphere of a press room in the days when all reporters were cynics and when Chicago's chief industry was crime. Its profanity had not dated...
Soldiers from New Glarus who visited Switzerland during World War II came home with some startling news: nobody seemed to yodel there any more. They also told their elders that the Swiss had been astonished by their talk; in 1946 New Glarus was still using phrases almost as dated as...
As in all kitchen cabinets and brain trusts, the membership in Harry Truman's gang shifts and changes. Long forgotten are burly, apple-cheeked Hugh Fulton who talked too much, and Omaha insurance man Ed McKim, who served with Harry Truman in the field artillery but was deemed dated...
Another modernizing job was near completion. Architect Winslow had found the two big sandstone pillars of the northwest Pennsylvania entrance to the White House grounds out of plumb. One had slipped two inches off the vertical. Wind and vibration from Pennsylvania Avenue's trolleys had tilted the other about...