Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cooper is an author who returns to the ancestral mansion in Connecticut after failing in New York. In the Polacks, frugal tobacco farmers who have turned the supposedly useless valley into a gold mine, he finds many new things, new inspiration, new power, and, incidentally, a new love in Anna Sten who will make a good wife because she can "work like two womans." Tarka finds himself in the mood to write the following note. "Not like snow. Very sorry. Not like Connecticut. Me go. Very sorry. Tarka...
...useless to try by arbitrary decree to check the progress of mechanical civilization. Time, as we so often hear, marches on. It is safe to say that telephones will some day be allowed at Yale. There is no reason why permission should should not be granted at once...
...cornea, or transparent front coating of the eyeball, occasionally becomes clouded, so that light cannot get through to the retina. Result: blindness. Eye surgeons recently perfected the operation of replacing such a clouded cornea with a corneal graft from the useless eye of an-other human being (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Dr. Ramon Castroviejo of Manhattan performed that operation on the left eye of Fremont Clark of Wadena, Iowa with this new twist: Instead of waiting for another patient to give up his cornea, Dr. Castroviejo gave Mr. Clark the cornea of a still-born baby...
...first round of last week's fight, Lasky bruised his left hand, injured before the fight, so severely that it was useless to him in the 14 rounds that followed. But to the crowd, which had made Lasky a 3-to-1 favorite, it soon became apparent that the injury had little significance. Steady, savage, relentless, boxing with the enthusiasm that characterized his style ten years ago, the skill he has acquired in the course of a long and dismal career, Braddock was fighting the bout of a lifetime. The judges' decision, awarded to him at the finish...
...Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology. The beak was missing...