Word: profitlessness
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...requires that U. S. munitions contracts, "except in rare cases," shall be let to the lowest bidders. The bidders include the U. S. arsenals, which naturally can underbid private concerns. Private munitions-making for the U. S. tends to be not only profitless but costly. Members of the Army Ordnance Associations- civilian industries organized under reserve officers and the Assistant Secretary of War-spend large sums keeping up-to-date their factory plans and personnel for munitions-making. It would be not only just but wise for the U. S. to give "educational" orders to such industries. During...
...about the death of awkward little Soldier Kemper whose speedy achievement of a great desire to be successful in the Army was interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...gained by the Faculty. When the responsible student becomes sole judge of the comparative advantages to himself of attendance or absence at a given lecture those lecturers on whom the verdict is unfavorable will suffer a sharp awakening from empty classrooms. In its tonic effect on dull and profitless instructors lies by no means the least promise of Yale Harvard's new departure...
...study. It is easier to sit in a comfortable chair and let the mind roam to the far reaches of a subject than it is to attempt to learn formulae, memorize passages from the great authors of the past or dig deep into abstract principles. But the former is profitless unless it rests on the firm foundations of the latter. It is true that the great inventions of the age are the children of imagination, but the automobile, the flying machine, the telephone would never have come into being if the invention had not possessed, in addition to imagination...
...American Marine Association, gloomily profitless, Merchant Edward A. Filene of Boston, last week, presented some simple arithmetic...