Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German Government's decision is at once an act of friendship to Italy and an example of intelligent European policy. It serves also to point the rational way whereby, without any need ot diplomatic contortion and useless controversies, it is possible to solve practically and in a form satisfactory to everyone the problem of the Italian fait accompli in East Africa...
...champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate in 1909, the 77-year-old son of Captain Thomas Jefferson Fletcher, C.S.A., was gravely dismayed when Michigan's Vandenberg last winter convinced the Senate that his latest & greatest project was not only useless but dangerous, might turn south Florida into a near-desert...
...goes to the hospital suffering from gas, he is as useless as if he were dead-and to care for him, several other persons must be kept out of the battle lines...
...partly the fault of a Government which allowed tons of poison gas to be shipped to Italian armies through the Suez Canal and permitted British Oil companies to sell their products as fuel for Mussolini's airplanes and tanks. They have learned the bitter lesson that sanctions are useless and futile, unless they are carried through to their logical conclusions, relentlessly and brutally...
...felt that by combining the possibilities of such diverse fields a more general knowledge may be obtained in preference to the intensive specialization which often proves to a large degree useless after graduation. Intensive work on some one period or field is both necessary and valuable if some use is to be made of that knowledge out of college. As son often happens, the knowledge gathered this way in the university is not needed and is forgotten. To ameliorate this situation, it has been decided to offer more opportunities for an eclectic method of education; a method where...