Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Useless and undecorative memorials have recently spring up in such profusion throughout the country that when another one in mentioned, there is a great inclination to forget the whole matter with a shrug. In this age of brick and stone, a truly fitting memorial is a rarety...
...fact, this useless interregnum will be costly and dangerous whenever it occurs in troublous and critical times. In normal times we may overlook the waste it involves; but it becomes a matter of first rate moment in such times as this. We ought to take advantage of the present demonstration of its unpleasant possibilities to end it. Congress should submit an amendment to the states without unnecessary delay. Chicago Tribune
...Personally, it made no difference to me where the money which was to finance the expedition came from, and I accepted this offer. I soon found out, however, that Government control was not all that it was supposed to be. However, after disposing of the useless material which was forced upon us, we were able to make an extensive exploration and determine many facts of scientific importance...
...bring home to her the full consciousness of the unwisdom of her policy. Perhaps it will but increase her defiance. Certainly the former probability is the most desirable; there are too many latent forces of literary and scientific thought and accomplishment in Germany to have them thrown away in useless pursuit of a rainbow's end. Were Germany to realize this, and make some attempt to free herself, as has Austria, from the grasp of Prussianism, not only she, but the world as well, would profit...
...hastily. Granted that the situation is a difficult one, and that California has so far been practically unsuccessful in her handling of it: still there is as yet no adequate reason for raising such a hue and cry. Until the time for action arrives, it is worse than useless to parade our grievances in public. The result is only too likely to be the rekindling of the flames of anger and stubbornness in both Japan and America--names which will prevent any peaceable settlement of the problem. If legislation may prove to be the remedy, why stir up excitement...