Word: needless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Needless to say, I would find myself on the opposite side from this hypothetical candid critic of public education. But what I am more concerned with in the year 1952 is to make the hostile critics of the public schools in the United States show their colors...
...commend the alertness and integrity of the Federal Trade Commission in clamping down on the erroneous advertising of the tobacco industry. One wonders at the needless cruelty to living creatures involved in the tests described. If living tissue must be tortured in an attempt to support the false claims of the cigarette manufacturers, I suggest that we use the nicotine hucksters themselves. Let's drip smoky water in their eyes; trim their eyelids; cut holes in their windpipes...
Howe and two other professors interviewed last night condemned the decision for permitting needless restriction of freedom of opinion in the classroom...
...Syracuse, N.Y., doctors reported widespread "TV tummy" among moppet televiewers. Early symptoms: closing of eyes at too-exciting moments and running out of the room "until the bad man isn't on the screen any more." Later symptoms: cramps and pains due to stomach spasms, often resulting in needless X-ray examinations for appendicitis...
...neither plumbing nor central heating in Matthews. Matthews men hauled big wooden tubs out to the Yard pump at six a.m., filled them with water, dragged them back to the basement of the Hall, and took their baths. Toilet facilities consisted of a large pit, also in the basement. Needless to say, living conditions were severe, especially when the "Med. Fac." blew up the Yard pump...