Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regret of the season seems to have been the inability of the E boys to meet the faculty. Class K, however, has taken turns in eliminating first faculty and now class E. Perhaps a post-season and strictly unofficial game between E and the faculty could be arranged. Needless to say the E gang is not anywhere near anxious for this meeting as they were a few weeks back, but we still believe that both sides would have...
...belongings of the mass of undergraduates who leave for the armed forces. Many have left already, but the real exodus is a few weeks away. Prompt assumption of authority by the University by organizing a small bureau and making arrangements with a large storage concern would save money and needless confusion for many students...
...that 16 large U.S. corporations had a record 1,611,200 shareholders last year, 64% more than in stock-crazy 1929. For the whole U.S. economy this is a good thing: big business thus has more policemen to keep it out of trouble, more guardians to protect it from needless persecution...
Yesterday, after months of quibbling and needless delay, the gaso-line-rubber conservation program went into effect throughout the nation. Yet, in spite of the Bausch report, and statements by President Roosevelt and Rubber Administrator Jeffers as to the dire necessity of this measure, many Oklahomans and 166,000 out of 546,000 Detroit car owners refused to register. Mr. Jeffers warned "There is a good deal of organized opposition in various quarters--the funds for which are being furnished by people who should know better. I don't question their motive. They just don't understand...
...play's difficulty lies in making Jimmy share Rhoda's feelings; and aware of what they are up against, the authors postpone their fictional finale as long as they can by nervously improvising a wide assortment of needless incidents...