Word: meaninglessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with 10 points on a 5-2-0 record. Yale (3-1-1) meets Princeton (2-2-2) day, and the Crimson (4-1-1) will face the Elis next Friday, probably with center forward Chris Ohiri back in action. A victory over Yale will render the Brown defeat meaningless, as it most certain was anyway
...said Comet, that suddenly thrust the responsibility for leadership upon the American Jewish community, which was in fact not ready for or capable of it. And out of America has come no Jewish culture. Jewish intellectual work in secular areas, and Jewish education has become negligible and sometimes completely meaningless...
What Price Discovery? Cost-conscious Tom Jones may be, but critics outside the industry outdo him in questioning increasingly the utility of the nonmilitary goals of his trade. Grumbling that the space race with Russia is a meaningless weight-lifting contest, they would rather spend money on schools or cancer research than on shooting the moon. The usual answer is that to be left behind in space is to risk survival. A secondary answer is that aerospace has already begun to pay unusual dividends, and promises more. Space probes in the last four years have taught scientists more about...
...Lifesaving kits" contain a salve supposed to cause radiation to ricochet harmlessly off the body; in fact, no salve, ointment or grease has the slightest value as a fallout protector (neither does any of several brands of "antiradiation pills"). Jerry-built shelters bear the slogan "CD-approved" or other meaningless legends; actually, the OCDM approved nothing, merely set the standard for shelters. A widely advertised "fallout suit," selling at the rate of 500 a week for $21.95 each, actually provides no more protection against radiation than a raincoat. A promoter recently approached W. Dan Bell, head of Denver...
...person who submits to such resignations will ask himself: "Do not the sterile efforts of so many philosophers prove that their search is in vain; that either it is meaningless, or else it is impossible to reach a solution that can compel universal recognition...