Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal in his physical development, he suffers from a desire to revise the rules of every game he plays, sometimes bursts out crying if he loses. He likes best to perform feats of daring. Pet dislikes are fighting and arguing, both of which he thinks are "needless and quite pointless, since nothing is ever settled by them." In the use of his hands Bunny is backward. Prescribed for him and other bright pupils at the Ethical Culture School are carpentry, clay modeling, painting, drawing, paper cutting...
...desirable to maintain this system of graduate coaching wherever possible, but experience in every sport, not solely in football, has shown that of necessity there comes a time when an able graduate coach is not available for the sport in question. When such a situation arises, it is pointless to cling to the tradition in the face of reality. Thus, in every sport save football Harvard has looked outside the lists of its Alumni Directory for leaders. There is no reason why it should not follow the same course in the case of football if the Committee decides to change...
...civilization; they have produced a singular dichotomy in our national personality. Thus we have "highbrows" and "lowbrows," the former devoting themselves to a sterile, abstract kind of spirituality which has no roots in the reality of our life, and the latter running out their years in ceaseless, pointless activity, unaware that above them hangs a heaven of blue...
...School when questioned about the charges of poor laboratory equipment, stated that he believed the facilities adequate and that the Arsenal and the Rindge Technical School, where the shop-work is done, were so well supplied with apparatus, that duplication of their plants by the Engineering School would be pointless. The engines in McKay laboratory, he said were modern enough to be used for instruction in the fundamentals of engineering, and it is that branch that the school attempts to prepare its students
Next in line for favours is the city bourgeoisie, especially the vociferous lower middle class. They will be reduced equally with the worker by rising food prices. Just how they will be rewarded it is pointless to guess. Another Nazi pronouncement will tell the story before long. The farmer will then have to sacrifice a part of his gain in raised commodity prices, but only a part for labor is not to be in on the cut. The technique (if sincere bigotry can be called technique) for hiding this redistribution of national income will be a continuance of racial self...