Word: profitless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the foreign ministers of Britain and France sat down with Secretary of State Dean Acheson, almost everyone expected that their conversations would be of the dull and profitless sort that are officially known as "exploratory." The talks proved to be nothing of the kind. Last week, after months of recriminations, bickerings and mutual suspicions, France's Robert Schuman, Britain's Ernest Bevin, and Acheson swiftly compromised their quarrels and wrote what amounted to an interim peace treaty for Western Germany...
Selden Rodman has collected 100 American poems, ranging from the twisted, Donne-like prayers of colonial minister Edward Taylor to a fine elegy by 31-year-old Robert Lowell. To introduce the poems, Rodman has written a breathless essay which takes the reader on a dizzy, profitless tour of American poetic history. Most readers will prefer to skip Rodman's off-the-hip grading of American poets and go directly to their work. On the whole, his selections are very good. He has omitted such chestnuts as The Raven and 0 Captain! My Captain! and included less well-known...
...well I remember the dreary and profitless hours studying Latin, literature, history and other inane and dry subjects. And in college a continuation of the same program. What a waste of my time. Much better it would have been had I been taken out of school at the age of 14 and put to work and tried out at various vocations to discover what pleased me; and if I found I needed more book learning, then, and only then, I could return to the proper school to learn what I needed, instead of being filled with a lot of useless...
This week Liberty, another chronic money-loser, tried a new tack to get out of the red tide and into the black. Except for a couple of war years, it had gone profitless under Founders Joseph M. Patterson and Robert R. McCormick. And it had failed to pay its way for their successors, Bernarr Macfadden and Paul Hunter. A weekly until last February and a fortnightly since, Liberty (circ. 1,600,000) will now be a 10? monthly...
Comeuppance. Near Swift Current, Sask., Bachelor-Farmer Alfred Bessant lived alone in his cellar through 16 profitless, bad crop years, grew a $2,500 crop this year, came out of the hole...