Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buck Hill Falls, Pa., 100 doctors, lawyers, businessmen, clergymen and engineers sat down to discuss professional education, after three days agreed that it left a lot to be desired. Most frequently voiced objection: the professional schools are turning out technically trained but socially irresponsible graduates ("useless or dangerous to society"). Columbia Law Professor Karl Llewellyn thought that the professional schools should not neglect the bottom 90% for the sake of the top 10%. Said he: "In the average town of 100,000, trying to find a good lawyer is as difficult as trying to find a good dentist...
...Office has received Reading Period authorizations from roughly only two-thirds of all middle-group courses. With less than two weeks remaining before their time is up, veterans with no list to go on are on the spot. And any lists that arrive in the next week will be useless if they include books that must be ordered...
...testimony before Vandenberg's Foreign Relations Committee, Hoffman outlined his conception of the nation's task in Europe: "If production can be increased by one-third quickly, Western Europe will be on the way to prosperity. ... A half-hearted program is likelv to be worse than useless...
...further defense of the bill, Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, asserted that "Western society has always used birth control, so it is useless to argue about it. Everybody goes up to the State House to fight birth control, and then goes right home and practices...
Graduate schools the country over have the peculiar and annoying custom of asking for letters of recommendation from the instructors of hopeful applicants. When this concerns Harvard and other large colleges it is a useless gesture with no relation to reality...