Word: baselessness
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Marre is sure that there is no political consciousness in Hollywood, and he deplores this fact. "All the producers are interested in is dough," is his firm comment, "and the whole investigation is baseless...
...What Trapper Driberg innocently calls a "possibly outmoded derivation" the Oxford English Dictionary labels "an ingenious but baseless conjecture...
...Edgar Hoover, followed his advice when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture the Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island in June, 1942. Drayton has hired practically no one but ex-FBI men as investigators. Their chief trouble so far: baseless "tips" from people who have bet on the wrong horse. Even so, Drayton thinks his job is valuable. Says he: "My presence deters crime...
...future expansion of Harvard is no baseless hypothesis. The mushrooming graduate schools, broad national increase in enrollments, G.I. Bill, government subsidies for advanced research, all make up a demand that Harvard grow with the times. But this growth does not mean that what is now left of the Yard must b subject to the whims of succeeding generations of growth-intoxicated planners. It is about time the University took to protecting its meagre reserves of physical attractiveness instead of sacrificing them to short-view expediency...
...interesting, but a "baseless conjecture," according to the Oxford English Dictionary...