Word: purposeless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would feel a certain caution after paying up to $770,000 in tax. Many of the nation's heavy spenders, who kept the big nightclubs and the Florida hotels open, used expense-account dollars, which was still fun-but not quite in the same old, free and purposeless...
Each student had had to appear before an admissions committee. The committee was tough on grinds and narrow specialists ("Germany has had enough of bookish but purposeless Herren Doktoren"). It also rejected one boy who hopefully emphasized that his grandmother had been an Aryan. But it did accept several Communists-"otherwise," explained a professor, "we could not truly call ourselves a free university...
...Western world tends to think of the Arab as a falcon-eyed warrior on a white horse. That Arab is still around, but he is far less numerous than the disease-ridden wretches who lie in the hot streets, too weak, sick and purposeless to roll over into the shade...
...warfare against the British, would turn just as eagerly on Jewish "appeasers." In a showdown, moderate Zionists would probably have the support of Haganah, largest of the underground groups. The compromise note was already sounded by "Voice of Israel," the Haganah radio station, which last week condemned violence and "purposeless terror...
...Said Dr. Allan V. Heely, headmaster of New Jersey's Lawrenceville School: "American education is . . . aimless, unorganized and purposeless...