Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tutor's opinions should carry much weight in the awarding of scholarships, but at present methods of obtaining information from this source are so, inadequate as to render it useless. When a scholarship application is received, the candidate's tutor is sent a blank upon which to express his ideas concerning the individual; this blank consists of two short paragraphs, the substance of which is contained in these sentences: "It will help the committee on scholarships if you will send us on this sheet an estimate of Mr. So-and-So's ability, as well as your opinion...
...course in the organization of facts, but in the writing of good English. No one would be so foolish as to deny that there is no connection between straight thinking and clarity of style, but emphasis upon ideas without an adequate medium for their expression is useless. The achievement of such a medium is the goal toward which the work of English A is directed...
...make a mature art belongs in the section meetings, but here the time is spent on quizzes and reviews. The interested and intelligent cannot express their ideas while the instructor is rehearsing fundamentals to the lazy and inept. Creative thinking and personal reactions are stifled in the bud, and useless repetition shuts off what might be enjoyable general discussion...
Because the region into which the young flyer had headed was so vast, unknown and impenetrable, search was from the beginning regarded as largely useless. Nonetheless, a few attempts were made, and all future scientific expeditions through the Guianas or Venezuela were asked to keep an eye open. After five years of silence even Pilot Redfern's wife and father believed him dead, had given up hope that any trace of him or his plane would ever be found...
Under California's penal code, any person who "unlawfully and maliciously deprives a human being of a member of his body, or disables, disfigures or renders it useless" is guilty of mayhem, punishable by one to 14 years' imprisonment. Last week in San Francisco, Drs. Tilton Edwin Tillman and Samuel George Boyd were arrested for mayhem, released on bail. On the ground that she was mentally incompetent, Dr. Tillman advised and Dr. Boyd had performed an operation sterilizing Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, great-granddaughter of the late great Philanthropist Peter Cooper, granddaughter of the late great Statesman Abram...