Word: useless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Critic's existence as a separate publication. If it is not to be more of a gadfly than this, it ought to merge with an older sheet and boost the advertising rates. I trust that it will not. Harvard can use some gadflies, but they are a peculiarly useless insect if they do not sting. The obvious thing, I should think, is to look up some barbs
...proposals, he would bob up again with encouraging plans for new round-table meetings, finding the old failures, (when he admitted them) simply "incomprehensible," and letting it go at that. But now he has spoken out loud and bold to the British Commons, telling them that "it is useless for me to remain here for months unless the attitude (of the various delegations) changes." Disheartening as is this indication of the inflammatory material waiting for a fire-bug, it is nonetheless pleasing to see Mr. Henderson take on the unaccustomed garb of realism; he wears it with the surprising...
...insidious assault is to publicize the affair ruthlessly, for the very nature of their business makes it impossible for the patent people to fight in the open. If these tactics are used it should be possible to end the victimization of the public by "cures" that are not only useless but very often harmful as well...
...more interesting, produced their candid correspondence with one another, procured from the Chase's letter files. One letter told that Jose ("Wood Louse") Obregon, son-in-law of President Machado hired by Chase's Havana branch (at $19,000 a year), had turned out to be absolutely useless for any purpose except entertaining clients; that Machado had used up $9,000,000 of a $12,000,000 pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction...
...which might ideally be construed as advantageous, but which could have little practical significance under the political conditions obtaining throughout modern states. In other words, they were a little better than the National Labour Board, inasmuch as their divisions were functional rather than regional; but they were quite as useless as the National Labour Board insofar as their sanctions were doubtful, and their sanctions were doubtful, and their decisions incapable of enforcement...