Word: well-worn
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...first white woman they had ever seen.) . . . Here our packers deserted us, making it necessary to dispose of a good part of our equipment. Two Indian boys on their way to visit the chief medicine man of their tribe in Colombia agreed to guide us. We followed a well-worn Indian trail over the range of mountains between Panama and Colombia, and after many hardships we reached the Indian village of Arquia in Colombia...
...died a few years ago, he used to take long hikes along the Hudson River Palisades, and wrote a New York Walk Book. He still chops wood, goes for long jaunts. A regular visitor at important medical meetings, Dr. Dickinson is usually seen with a pencil poised over a well-worn black notebook, looking intently at the speaker. He is not taking notes; he is sketching a profile...
...close as anyone will venture a guess at the date of the second R-Day when every 21-year-old who missed the first occasion will register for the draft. Franklin Roosevelt may well have signed the proclamation naming the day already, and if his sickness has prevented him, he will undoubtedly sign it his week. Ten days after the registration the well-worn goldfish bowl will again become the center of interest of thousand of eyes, and a new set of draftees will be well on their way to the potato peeling machines and the on-order tanks...
...things about the Centuries are undeniably true: i) new generations have constantly dusted off its well-worn prophecies to fit newborn events; 2) a reappraisal of its tempting quatrains is a sure sign of world crisis. Last time they got a good dusting was during World War I. Germans used Nostradamus to prove that they were sure to win; the French foresaw an Allied victory. But if Nostradamus foresaw that his shade would become a U.S. cinema star in World War II, he apparently forgot to mention...
...super-syncopated version of De Camptown Races, followed by Liebestraum in rumba time. Kate Smith's big new number was There I Go, new some months ago. Lucky Strike's Your Hit Parade was a parade of the only "hits" it was allowed to play-the well-worn There I Go, So You're The One, Frenesi, seven others. These had been frantically cooked up in the past months by the big broadcasters' Broadcast Music, Inc. to broadcast after their contract with the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers expired...