Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With regard to ... the immorality trials, I am of the opinion that these were not particularly effective in Germany proper, and that therefore we should be careful and not accept every accusation as actual fact. You know that the Jewish world press is very vigilant, and makes use of every unfounded accusation against the clergy as grounds for a savage campaign against National-Socialist Germany...
...Europe of 1938 by a jury in Copenhagen. Indignantly appealing to the Minister of Education to rebuke the college for its puritanism by reinstating Miss Salonen, Finland's press pointed out she was a high-ranking student, was the only competitor in the beauty contest who did not use cosmetics...
...such action since the Wheeler-Lea Act amended the Federal Trade Commission Act last June, FTC announced that upon its recommendation a U. S. District Court had enjoined Hartman stores from advertising a weight-reducing remedy named 281 because in doing so the chain had failed to reveal that use of the preparation "may be injurious to the health...
...Harvard out-numbered those of Yale this year by the score of 36 to 31. Perhaps this is prophetic for November 19. Yale may well challenge the use of the R.O.T.C. as a preliminary hardening up season, for Harvard had Kenneth Booth, Donald Daughters, R. G. Jones, Howard Johnson, Charlie Snyder, W. S. Kerr, from its squad, at this camp...
...settling down to four years at Harvard it would be wise if the Freshman included in his academic schedule a certain number of hours which he will waste each day. He may study in those hours, but will learn things he will never use and promptly forget. But this waste has a value; it shows him something dull or worthless or leads to a dead end. As Nock said further in the same article: "Useless knowledge . . . gains value only as it is forgotten. . . . So let no one be fazed by his inability to accomplish a scholastic task quickly. Part...