Word: needlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told this. They know it, for they know him. The King's ascendancy over his subjects, the mastery of his statesmanship, have been shown at every stage of his reign. They explain how the country is held together in progress and prosperity through a thousand political vicissitudes. Elaboration is needless here...
...Union Tavern, at the township line, and returned immediately, a distance of six miles, at a speed of about 28 miles to the hour, her speed having been slackened at all the road crossings, and it being after dark, but a portion of her power was used. It is needless to say that the spectators were delighted...
...Jeffers as a poet is, by critical consensus, that of one to rank with the greatest poets of all generations. Homer and Sophocles have not been held too lofty comparisons for him?yet he remains distinctly a product of this continent. Inhuman in his intensity?he says "Humanity is needless"; calls men "the apes that walk like herons"?he repels people who seek comfort in poetry. He takes the race as a starting
...Quincy, Mass., last week, one Benjamin F. Earl, argued that to inject anti-rabies serum into dogs was cruel and needless because, he believed, there was no such disease as rabies. Dogs clubbed to death or shot as "mad" suffered only from distemper or a similar relatively mild disease. To establish his belief he offered to let any rabid dog bite him. No rabid dog was handy; no experimenter callous enough to jeopardize Theorist Earl's life...
There are obvious motives favoring this process of reduction in the number of judges. The growing volume of work laid upon our courts, and the increasing costs of criminal procedure, forbid all needless prodigality in the expending of Judicial intelligence on criminal cases. But it is a question of great moment whether, in thus reducing the factor