Word: useless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...useless for us to try to award sufficient praise to the University nine. Their hard and patient work has been crowned by signal triumph. They have snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. They have played and won the hardest up-hill game in the steadiest manner possible. Time after time an error in one of these last five innings would have defeated us; but our nine never faltered for an instant, was never nervous or confused, and always did the right thing. Well, the most exciting game the association ever chronicled is over, and after our wild rejoicings...
...been tried in vain. There is, however, only one means by which this objectionable feature of the yard can be inadicated, and that is by the liberal use of barriers at the entrance and end of each path. By this means only can the paths be removed. It is useless to remonstrate. The man who uses the path most, best realizes its value, and therefore can hardly be expected to forego, unless met by some convincing argument, a practice which has already become with many a habit...
...back and begin a circular motion with the arms on lines parallel to the body, thus expanding and contracting the chest. Do this at the rate of about 16 to the minute. Life is sometimes restored after as much as two hours work. A longer time would probably be useless...
Says the Clipper in regard to Prince. ton's pitcher: "No one can catch the balls from Bickham's delivery when the latter throws his swiftest. In speed he excels every pitcher now on the diamond. But his pace is useless, as no one could stand the punishment involved in facing such a delivery behind...
...enlargement of the pleura forces the air out of the air cells, thin walls are brought into contact with each other, and the whole lung in an airless condition may be pressed into the back part of the chest alongside of the back bone, where it lies as useless, as far as breathing is concerned, as a strip of leather. The same results may follow from the destruction of the elastic fibre of the lung, which takes such an active share in driving out the air expiration. Impurities in the air are breathed in and cause fevers. The diseases which...