Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless attempt to conceal their real weakness, the editors of the humorous sheet have sent us the following lineup: c., Coe; p., Behn; 1b.; Moorehead; 2b., Flint; 3b., Newcomb; s.s., Alger; 1.f., Choate; c.f., Allen; r.f., Frazer...
...work together with Amory's won high commendation from the coaches. A tendency to take the stroke away from Amory and hurry it slightly was the only marring feature. At the mile mark there was a length of open water between the boats. Now Princeton made a game but useless attempt to gain back some of the distance but without avail, for Amory gradually raised the stroke, the men behind him got the beat better and the Crimson crossed the finish line in 10.20 1-2, faster time than that made by the second Harvard boat...
...then, everyone is certain to run up against one or more of the apparently useless University rules. For, unfortunately, the University is far from being free from that "Red Tape" which is the usual concomitant of law and order. But there is one standing regulation that, every year, especially arouse the undergraduate ire because of its stupid inconsistency--this is the ruling that "not more than two men shall inhabit a college room...
...probable that the demand will be met not by increasing the already established colleges and universities until they reach a useless and ungainly size, but by building and organizing more institutions under state supervision. At any rate the cry for more money for college endowment funds will be heard for a long time to come, and when the long-suffering public begins to tire and contributions fall off, the state will take charge and raise the money by taxes. The youth of America wants a college education and the American youth usually gets what he wants...
...cases where the workers are being discriminated against? Perhaps he intends to do that in citing the defence of the principle of the open shop by the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Erectors' Association as an aggression against workers; but in this matter he deals too in useless generalities only, alleging that the "open shop" advocacy is a means toward "re-establishing a condition of serfdom among the great masses of the toilers of American. It would seem that when Mr. Gompers, as a leader and a lover of his country, comes before a body of college...