Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Same day Socialist President Cardenas chanced to be obeying the Biblical injunction to beat swords into plowshares. Since an immense quantity of antiquated, rusting and useless munitions has piled up from Mexico's revolutions, the President recently ordered experiments to see if serviceable plows could be made from antiquated cannon. After seeing some of the experimental plows pass rigorous tests last week, President Cardenas ordered 300 tons of old cannon forged into 10,000 plows...
...with alarm. No man was ever more betrayed by his imitators. What the trade knew as "Richardsonian Romanesque" are the banks, schools, churches, libraries, jails which still dot the land, built of the knobbiest of rough-cut masonry, with livid tile roofs, arched windows and a profusion of useless squat towers. What his admirers have never ceased to point out is that Richardson himself was very seldom Richardsonian. His best buildings: the Marshall Field Wholesale Store in Chicago, Harvard's Sever Hall, the Albany City Hall, Boston's Brattle Square Church ("The Church of the Holy Bean Blowers...
Interjected Chairman Bankes: "It is useless to be a briber unless the bribed will accept." (Laughter...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...Useless Sympathy, With such views current in the House of Commons, the future course of His Majesty's Government regarding Ethiopia seemed certain to take its bearings from basic factors which have not changed in the slightest because of the resignation of Sir Samuel Hoare. These factors he ably set forth...