Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seek to abolish hiring halls. A major issue is that of selection of men- that is, who shall have the right to say to whom American ship operators must entrust their ships. Employers believe that the owners should have this right. To resume negotiations under current circumstances would be useless." This attitude Harry Lundeberg termed "arbitrary and unreasonable." Thus last week the situation remained the old poser: what happens when the irresistible meets the immovable...
...Department is deeply immersed in hidebound tradition and takes far too long to use the results of modern inventions and apply them to practical use for the future. The next war will be totally unlike the last. Small field guns, toy cannons and pistol markmanship will be utterly useless, and the teaching of these subjects occupies more time in a valuable college curriculum than the average student ought to spend...
...backbone of football practice at almost every college in the U. S. is practice scrimmage. At Minnesota, scrimmages stop when football starts. Instead of scrimmaging - which Bierman considers boring, dangerous, and useless :for college players old errough to know the game - -Minnesota's first-string players concentrate on kicking, running off plays, working on individual weaknesses, harassing a Bierman-invented dummy. Reversing, the normal order of training any football team was merely Coach Bierman's beginning at Minnesota. Next he revised all Minnesota's individual peculiarities. Concentrating on brains instead of power, he built teams around smart...
When sample Comprehensives in English and International Relations were printed in the "News," it was seen that last-minute fact-grabbing, under the costly guidance of the tutoring school, would be worse than useless; only a sound comprehension of the Major subject will be of use. And it is felt that this will entail more application than has hitherto been the custom...
...National Union rally in the Municipal Stadium he delivered an equally strong paraphrase of his remarks: "This program of destruction [AAA] is unChristian. It is anti-God; it is just downright asinine. . . . The causes which beget Communism are not removed in America. . . . If and when ballots will have proven useless . . . I shall not disdain using bullets...