Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kramer anti-poliomyelitis vaccine is a mixture of immune serum (from a person who has had an attack of the disease) and active infantile paralysis virus. The serum renders the virus harmless, and the product creates immunity in vaccinated monkeys. It is useless in treating an attack of poliomyelitis or curing the consequent paralysis, but seems likely to prove an authentic preventive...
...Tumult and the Shouting (Longmans, Green, $2.00), along with the revelation that it all started way back in 1877 in a famous Boston family history. There Ought to be a Law against such things, you may feel, but William Seagle thinks that there ought to be a law against useless laws, and he tells you why in his new book (Macaulay, $1.25), a compilation of ridiculous legislation, fascinatingly illustrated by William Gropper...
...Borrowed or purchased notes are regarded as a perfectly legitimate aid, not to night-before cramming, but to methodical review. The only reason why more men do not use tutoring bureau outlines is that they are so inadequate and inaccurate as to be well-nigh useless...
...troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces of iron pipe, tear gas was as useless as cigar smoke. The sheriff was carried off unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond was in a cell on the third floor which had been vacated by Palo Alto's Murderer David A. Lamson (TIME, Sept...
...Massachusetts legislature will not, I hope, set the keynote for liquor legislation after repeal. After giving its sanction to taverns, the bill went on to allow music and dancing in them, and then executed an ingenuous right about face by prohibiting the admission of women. It is useless to comment on a bill so muddled and ridiculous as this; what it reveals about the Massachusetts legislature may be important, but it will obviously be amended before any police agency undertakes the task of its enforcement...