Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard to applications for the houses... the booklets are useless, since they do not tell which rooms are to be actually available...
...hours later high officers of the general staff, pistols in hand, were desperately trying to stop the flight. . . . Soldiers straggled past-useless and without arms because they had thrown them away...
...years ago a Frenchified Russian, Dr. Serge Voronoff, and a Kansan who almost became Governor of his State, Dr. John Richard Brinkley, made fame & fortune by grafting monkey and goat glands into decrepit males. Later a Viennese, Dr. Eugen Steinach, finding gland grafts useless, got beneficial results by a small operation which prevented the gradual loss of male hormones, which make men virile. But the real advance in man's age-old search for virility began only: 1) when Dr. Adolf Butenandt of Germany, after treating 62,500 gallons of urine, succeeded in crystallizing one two-thousandths...
...among the captain and crew. Besides being a more lucrative business than fighting in the continental navy, privateering was safer, as the ships were faster and the sailors more efficient. It made British trade routes dangerous to traverse and brought home needed goods, yet for naval operations it was useless...
...remedy for an educational system which on the one hand pours youth into a mold a strict scholasticism, and on the other hand subjects it to specialized and often useless technical training, MacLean advocated the application of two educational formulae--the "formula of the triangle" and the "formula of dynamic flow...