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...Fourth Estate* (magazine for journalists) gave credit to The New York Times for a piece of profitless honesty...
...Critics. New York Tribune: "If this were the year 1915 or even 1917 instead of the year 1923, Mrs. Wharton's novel might not seem so profitless an endeavor...
...suggestions does not prove a means of introducing the millenium, it should accomplish a vast amount of good by diverting creative energy into truly useful channels. If inventors will direct their resourcefulness toward carrying out the sane suggestions in "What's Wanted", they will not only spare themselves much profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have to catalogue them and search...
...printed in the Pi Eta show announcement last week is absolutely false. Used in the literal sense the expression is quite proper, and very appropriate as used. The unfavorable meaning attached to it is only a development of modern times. I suggest that the "student of Arabic" abandon such profitless muck-raking and keep to literal meanings. May I suggest that the "Occ." which he writes after his name might well mean "Of coarse caliber?" FORD HIBBARD...
...names of such places might be multiplied indefinitely A few hours devoted to visiting some of the more famous will amply repay anyone by a heightened interest in his surroundings and a sharpened sense of observation. It might be mentioned that the empty and profitless Sunday afternoons of winter will soon be here...