Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dogs are essentially useless. Nonetheless, the atavistic fondness which they arouse in humans not only saves them from extinction but enables them to some extent to be improved. Accordingly, in Manhattan last week more dogs (2,837) than ever before were benched in the Westminster Kennel Club's 59th Annual Show. Most extraordinary exhibits were three Welsh Corgis, a breed never before displayed at the show...
...appreciation through books (which no matter how well written can give only slightly the beauty of the original), lantern slides (which because of their lack of color can only vaguely suggest the perfection of a work of art), and, lastly, hard work (which without the painting is next to useless from the point of view of appreciation). The writer seems to forget that the idea of any university should be the enrichment of life not only through contact with fine books and enlightened professors but also through the visual arts. Therefore in letting a good artist, which Orosco...
...wonder, when his regular interviews are as useless as this, that the student does not think of going to his dean for advice which he is, of all others, ablest to give. All this is a result of treating intelligent men like cogs in a communist bureaucracy...
...Subsistence Homestead fund the Interior Department had spent on the project $437,645-not including about $140,000 worth of work by CWA, CCC and FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
...Prime Minister spent no time on amiable and useless generalities. He faced the question squarely, and destroyed it with one telling stroke. "The race for arms," said Mr. MacDonald, while the world hold its breath, "the race for arms must inevitably result...