Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed from the death bed with the first news of his chief's passing: "Huey's dead. It's terrible!" But Colonel Shushan, drygoods merchant, president of the New Orleans Levee Board and builder of one of the biggest, most expensive ($4,000,000) and most useless airports in the world for his personal glorification, was not destined to figure largely in the Long inheritance. Like Oscar Allen, his chief service to the Kingfish...
...American Medical Association, whose censors have made admission to U. S. medical schools exceedingly difficult and graduation from foreign medical schools virtually useless, last week set up a vigorous complaint against U. S. medical schools which are undermining its program for a highly exclusive profession. The A. M. A.'s chief means of forcing medical schools to abide by its high-minded policies is to exclude them from its list of "Approved Medical Schools...
...There 14,000 Italians fought 100,000 Ethiopians. The reason for this heroic and unfortunate exception was that Italy had at that time a government less concerned for its soldiers than for Parliamentary chicanery. Today all Italy is behind its sons! Today all Italy prefers a heroic to a useless life...
...important to Italy as the British Imperial conquests were to Britain in the time of Raleigh. . . . This is a day when men who can rule should rule and not vacate their places and duties. I intend to rule. . . . The world must not forget that world production is useless and will become stagnated unless it is permitted to flow into undeveloped countries. Ethiopia must provide for important consumption of world and Italian production...
Unhappy Wives dislike being watched. They find their advice is seldom asked. They prefer easy jobs to hard jobs, get to work late, neglect details, are careless with their belongings. They incline to daydream, have "useless thoughts," feel inferior, have dizzy spells, regard themselves as nervous. They dislike to lend money or give help in an accident. They tend to be tactless, unsympathetic, petulant, critical. They resemble happy wives in liking social welfare work, picnics, excursions and parties and in expecting solicitude when they are ill; but they prefer not to ask advice and to face their troubles alone. They...