Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some sort of power pool could not be worked out between TVA and private power companies. The conference adjourned to await fact-finding efforts. Last week with fact-finding complete the President wrote to the conferees that the conference would not be reconvened. Reason: it would be useless because 19 power companies have obtained a temporary court injunction restraining TVA's efforts to distribute power. Wendell L. Wilkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. said that the President had known at the time of the conference in September that the utilities planned to continue their court fight. Plain inference...
...House that these five human barnacles of His Majesty's Navy had been scraped off without ceremony, sympathy or public trial. Said Sir Samuel: "His Majesty's Government would have preferred to put charges to the men, but that would have betrayed and therefore made useless the secret service of His Majesty's Government. The evidence has been checked and counterchecked many ways, finally by a committee of high civil servants...
...Along the Chicago River, which slices through the city's midsection, 38 of the 55 drawbridges rose up to stay. Honking automobiles, clanging streetcars, cursing pedestrians piled up at the open bridgeheads, turned to fight their way back. Policemen shouted into dead telephones; their inter-communicating system was useless. State Street was bright with its private lighting system, and elsewhere in the Loop store lights and advertising signs glowed through the gloom, but most of the Second City's outlying streets were doused in country darkness. "It's the city's funeral, not ours," said Michael...
...there is no fraud; 4) there is equality between the parties to the game. Nevertheless gambling has been denounced by saints, church councils, Popes.* Of gambling, the Catholic Encyclopedia remarks: "If indulged in to excess it leads to loss of time, and usually of money; to an idle and useless life spent in the midst of bad company and unwholesome surroundings; and to scandal which is a source of sin and ruin to others. It panders to the craving for excitement and in many countries it has become so prevalent that it rivals drunkenness in its destructive effects...
While U. S. newsorgans were churning out reams last week about the General Motors strike, Russian newsorgans were up in arms over troubles in the famed Gorky automobile plant. No strike was afoot in Moscow, for Russians know it is useless to strike. There were no fistfights, as in the U. S. There was just deliberate dawdling...