Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divisionals Useless Without Tutors...
...silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back to the Treasury the cartwheels come every time, to be exchanged for paper money more to the public's fancy...
...Propaganda and big business have rendered most news journals useless as conveyors of fact. They are mirrors of bias. This trend began during the war and is now predominant. The CRIMSON has no interests controlling it and so it is live where its contemporaries are dead. Its life is mirrored in its editorials, which express a definite, forceful opinion in great contrast to a journal which must cater to its public...
...Because economic sanctions against an aggressor nation would be useless while so many nations, U. S., Germany, Russia, Turkey, etc.) were nonLeague members, for the reason that the effect would be to divert the trade of an outlawed aggressor from the signatory to the non-signatory states of the Protocol...
...Harvard's President in his several addresses at the alumni clubs of the University has tried to justify and defend the attitude of the Board of Trustees toward the same question; on what grounds, for what reason?--simply because a theatre for young playwrights and authors would be a useless fixture to the University, while a Business School would be an income bringing and prestige carrying annex...