Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
...these cases has been so inestimable as greatly to outweigh the loss of one individual life--and in this lies the explanation of their immortality. Where there is no legacy of knowledge, and no possibility of it, the deliberate death of a scientist becomes little more than pointless suicide--magnificent, but futile and without vision...
Discussion, wearying and pointless, centred about the U. S. proposal for a central body to control production of the drug and a plan to decrease importations by 10% annually. Mrs. Hamilton Wright of the U. S. delegation brought up a new proposal to send expert committees into opium-producing countries to determine what crops could be profitably grown instead of opium. Nobody could agree with anybody; all presented compromise plans; none accepted them, and there the matter rested. After U. S. Bishop Charles H. Brent had withdrawn from the Conference, disgusted, and one of the Indian delegates had been withdrawn...
Southward, Valparaiso and Center Colleges wrangled into a pointless tie. Center is but a wraith of the little giantess she was in the day of "Bo" McMillan, her bold, brash back of two seasons...
...youngest class, should be the first number of the year. It is generally such a lame affair, for which, let us add, there is some slight reason. Two or more summer months of idleness, a flood of special deliveries and telegrams the week before college opens, a few haphazard, pointless contributions by editors whose thoughts are at the time still waiting for the sunrise, and the lone editor who has returned to Cambridge, duty-bound and royally peevish, scrambles the horrible collection together, shouts to the printer, falls into bed, and another "Freshman number" looks the Square...