Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...immediately grew serious again, however, and went on, "The whole examination system is wrong. It depends too much upon luck and a certain kind of cleverness. It is just another addition to the useless drudgery which keeps education back...
Concluded he: "I reply emphatically that I am ready for any task, in any post or outside any post and under any control imposed by my party. It is useless to emphasize, that after recent discussions, our cause necessitates that I should be relieved of my post of President of the Revolutionary War Council...
...scholarship, Author Heard traces the homologous development of caps and cathedrals, mitres and mosques-15,000 years in a book of 150 pages that scholars will find an interesting tour-de-force, men of letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
Before Congress convened last month, the President let it be known that he did not expect to call an extra session of the new Congress before December next. He pointed out that, as far as the question of revising the income tax law was concerned, it would be useless until the close of the fiscal year (June 30) when it can be seen to some degree how the present law is working. If no extra session is called, Congress will not meet from Mar. 4 until the first Monday of next December. It has been guessed that the President might...
...taught. The conversation of students is often of a low grade. So is that of their teachers." Prof. Shaw declared that the student of the day inclines to the unemotional attitude of Leopold and Loeb, Chicago perverts; that Phi Beta Kappa, hierarchy of U. S. scholarship, is as useless as its emblem, a watch...