Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless to love liberty unless we establish laws. It is futile to cherish justice unless we provide courts...
...trooped to their seats, the amazing number of 400 being present. The galleries were packed. Speaker Longworth's wife*nee Roosevelt?was there. The time for voting came. Opponents of impeachment, their battle lost, tried to delay matters. Hot-headed Representative John E. Rankin of Mississippi asked for a useless roll-call. Irritated, the usually suave, immaculate Ogden Mills walked across to Mr. Rankin, pointed out that a delay would prevent his delegation (New York) from getting home for Easter. The Mississippian was obdurate, sniffy. Flashed Ogden Mills: "Its a damn mean thing to hold 20 men here!" Back came...
Canned Vitamins. Dietitians believed heretofore that the canning of vitamin-bearing foods destroyed the vitamins? as did open cooking. Dr. Walter H. Eddy of Teachers' College, Manhattan, proved at least for Vitamin C (anti-scurvy), that oxidation makes useless this complex chemical. In ordinary cooking much oxygen reaches the food, in canning very little. Actually canned vegetables are more healthful than cooked fresh ones...
...first speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, scored Mr. Mencken's writing as useless and his critical invective as ineffective in reaching the marks it is aimed at. Chapman said that Mencken attacks the obviously commonplace, the Babbitts, the Dayton ministers, Rotarians and others who do not hear him because they do not buy the Mercury. Chapman likewise attacked the criticism of Mencken's school as consisting largely of exaggeration. He also pointed out his fallacious one-sided interest in life--he sees only the perverted, ignorant side. Chapman's conclusion was that it might be better...
...Wets will have to change .State laws before they can present any reason to Congress for changing the Volstead act. In such a contest straw ballots are as useless as a straw hat in a blizzard...