Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochelle, N. Y. Asbestos Heir Thomas Franklyn Manville Jr. discharged seven armed guards, posted seven police dogs to catch kidnappers. Explained he: "The dogs have two advantages over the men guards. They do not drink my liquor, and they do not fall into slumber so deep that they are useless." While the fourth Mrs. Manville sulked in Manhattan, her husband's new secretary, 23-year-old Dolly ("Honey Child") Goering, presided over the New Rochelle mansion, giggled: "I feel as if I should have a weapon. Against the police dogs, I mean. . . . 1 think Tommy is the most marvelous...
This document, prepared in detail by Thomas H. Quinn '36, president of the Council, is the result of a discussion carried on at a Council committee meeting held on the last Thursday before vacation. It contains several new provisions and omits some useless powers included in the old document, but does not cut down the present size of the Council...
...Renfrewshire, Scotland, where a narrow little creek called the River Cart joins the twisting Clyde there is a fertile fan-shaped farm. It boasts three good fields, a bit of useless swamp, a shaded dirt road. For the past year what made it different from all other farm land in Scotland was that every time its farmer raised his eyes from the furrow he saw towering over his head the vast stern and mountainous superstructure of the greatest ship ever built in Britain, Queen Mary. When the farmer looked up from his field last week Queen Mary was gone, safe...
...struck. Down to the engine room flashed the signal: FULL SPEED ASTERN. Four propellers, each as big as a bungalow, churned the chocolate-colored water to froth. It was too late. Bow and stern, the 80,773-ton ship was aground. Her own engines were useless...
Congratulations on your plain-spoken and strictly TIME-worthy Havelock Ellis article (TIME. March 9). We will stop publishing our sexeducational magazine as useless if you continue along these lines...