Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will presumably be brought to trial by the Presbytery, which last week appointed a committee to study the case. In the same situation was Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr. of the Chicago Presbytery. He was asked to resign or undergo a trial which "would involve many tedious and practically useless formalities...
...their prices before the consumer could meet them. The result has been that leaders of industry have been losing confidence in its success, and once this happens success becomes practically impossible. No matter how splendid the ideas may be that the leaders of a democracy may hold, they become useless if the citizens of that democracy do not believe them too. Thus, the final test in this country depends upon what the President and his aides can make the people think, not what they believe...
...good, but Minister von Papen did not go to Vienna last week. He was said to be insisting that his presence in Austria would be worse than useless so long as Germany supported the so-called "Austrian Legion" of Nazis who have escaped from Austria but intend to dash back for a coup at the first favorable moment. For days von Papen was reported bickering with Hitler over the Legion. Then the big guns of the German Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment fired a salvo of announcements that the Austrian Legion had been dissolved, added touching details...
...Monstrous!" cried Laborite John Joseph Tinker. "I have seen this thing in the British Museum and I call it useless. If scholars like such things let them buy them and leave this £40,000 to be spent for the relief of poverty and distress...
...book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...