Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week their worries appeared to be needless. During the first three days of Tropical's meet, 21,000 racing fans turned out, poured $698,000 into its pari-mutuel machines. It was a larger turnout and larger turnover than the track enjoyed during its first three days a year ago. "It shows," chirped Tropical's Board Chairman Herbert Bayard Swope (see p. 54), "that the first war jitters are over and the people want relaxation such as is furnished by racing and other sports...
...airmail contracts canceled in 1934. Mr. Akers almost charged the President with a mistake, but then backed delicately away, leaving final decision to the Court. But one fact seemed clear: the Army need not have taken over the airmail routes; the deaths of twelve Army pilots were needless...
...Henry's campaign was divided into four main drives (see map): from the south, for Beirut and for Damascus; from the east, for Palmyra and for Aleppo (and Latakia). These objectives were to be taken if possible, said the British, "with a view to obviating needless strife and bloodshed...
...general, military authorities are either slanting the news at the source or by various pressures getting it slanted later on. The facts suppressed are not "military secrets" which could be used by the Nazis. The censorship of them is an obstacle to an informed electorate and a needless curb on freedom of the press...
...picture tells the story of an easy-going tramp who becomes involved in a nation-wide publicity stunt by a pretty newspaper reporter. The publicity stunt, however, takes on Fascist leanings when it falls into the hands of an unscrupulous publisher, which, needless to say, complicates the somewhat idyllic love story; and what starts out to be a harmless little romance turns into a national crisis...