time-tried

… Chinese President Hu Jintao initiated restructuring reforms in the mid-2000s, but the financial crisis erupted in late 2008, forcing him back into the time-tried solution of credit expansion.

Matthew Yglesias » Predictions Are Hard, Especially About the Future 2010

The result was the old and time-tried result: the elder brother murdered the younger.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

Hence the most skillful book-printer is distrustful of himself, unless supported by experienced craftsmen, and more especially by time-tried proof-readers.

The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe

All in one fleet second, in spite of the whole morning's quick intimacy of mood and the spirit of companionship which to her had seemed a delightfully new yet time-tried thing, Barbara found that she could not read an inch behind those grave gray eyes.

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

By a judicious mixture of sympathy and sober feeling, they may counteract the extraneous influences that are now at work, and restore peace to the family, by uniting its members in the practice of a calm and rational piety, of which, out-of-doors, the best assistance and safeguard are to be found in the time-tried doctrines and discipline of our PROTESTANT ESTABLISHMENTS.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

So had he tested again a time-tried truth, and proved it.

Winner Take All Larry Evans

It is no doubt true that two phases of training, in addition to the time-tried curricula, must be emphasized now by some or all the Negro colleges in North Carolina: a. Vocational education, health, citizenship, social sciences.

Report and Recommendations of the Commission to Study Public Schools and Colleges for Colored People in North Carolina: Authorized by the General Assembly in Resolution no. 28, March 10, 1937, and Appointed by Governor Clyde R. Hoey Commission to Study Public Schools 1938

Valuable as the wheel hoe is, however, and varied in its scope of work, the time-tried hoe cannot be entirely dispensed with.

Home Vegetable Gardening — a Complete and Practical Guide to the Planting and Care of All Vegetables, Fruits and Berries Worth Growing for Home Use 1930

Given the padded comfort of that stout old chair -- a friendly, time-tried book between my fingers -- a dish of ruddy apples twinkling in the fire-light; my mundane soul snuggled in content.

Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed Edna Ferber 1926

Yet, he was too satisfied with bygone results to abandon the time-tried artistries of former victories.

The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Paul Dickey 1909