Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sends messages down the spinal cord to nerves of the muscles at the site of injury. A hurt fist will clench, a face twist, a foot limp. These messages may accumulate if the injury is very great or persistent. This accumulation of nerve impulses may itself irritate nerves, causing useless and damaging excess pain...
...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
Observant Reader Semple is quite right, but even if it worked it would remain a useless egg beater. Only Paul Bunyan could use an egg beater five feet high, only Paul Bunyan's chickens could lay eggs big enough for it to beat...
...Paralyzed when a bale of cotton falls on him. a young sharecropper broods over his wife working in his place. When the plantation owner refuses to advance them two pounds of fat-bacon until the end of the week, he broods over a plan to cut off his numb, useless legs and eat them...
...field, is hopelessly muddled by the individual interests of the tutors. This work should be standardized and systematized, and would be better carried out in larger groups. In addition, a card index for books in Biochemistry should be compiled to simplify tutorial references, since Holyoke House is useless to concentrators. Lastly, there should be more men among the tutors interested in more specialities...