Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal and leadership the other two ingredients of successful organization--a competent staff and money--will follow as a matter of course. Some people have an idea that money is the all-important thing. It is necessary and must be forthcoming but all kinds of money in barrels is useless without the other three ingredients. And, as I have said, it will materialize automatically in the train of the other ingredients. No sound cause, well led, ever lacked for money...
Thirty pirates were arrested by Chinese authorities and charged with attacking British ships in South China waters. To avoid legal proceedings, useless fuss and bother, two were shot in public, the remainder were enrolled in Sun Yat-Sen's army to be shot by the enemy...
...students here in the University are not to form any judgment, then at least 15 courses in this college are useless." Because the present wording of the question seemed a little vague, and ambiguous, Professor Hart outlined a wording which would confine the discussion within the desired bounds, and yet would leave a definite place in which to take issue. The following is the change which Professor Hart suggested...
...sheer speculation. Methods of production, the organization of industry, our whole social fabric, will inevitably be affected by new discoveries and inventions, and by the time we have developed to the point where we will be willing to live in a socialist state, socialism may find itself outworn and useless...
After a fortnight of bickering France poleaxed the conference idea by restricting its scope, or, in the words of Mr. Hughes, by making it "wholly futile and useless...