Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant's first point was that privately endowed colleges are able to direct attention more towards those aspects of education and research which are not utilitarian in nature, and which "to the shortsighted appear useless...
Hutter was the only sprinter who was able to use the oxygen with good results. For any distance over the 50, the gas was worse than useless, since as soon as the swimmer would have to breath, the whole effect would be lost, and it would be accompanied by a minor let-down which actually slowed the men down...
...battleship is still the backbone of the fleet. It occupies the same position in the navy an infantry unit does in the army. Recent wars have shown that bombing civilian populations from the air is useless from a purely strategical standpoint...
...majority party, reorganized it to give the peasants and the army control, thus pulling labor's teeth. Next he shook up his Cabinet to make it 100% Cárdenas, shifted army heads to tighten his hold on the military and cracked down on labor by deciding that "useless" strikes are outlawed and he personally will determine which strikes are "useless...
Meantime, fruitless air bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...