Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement yesterday Bock called useless the data which the committee has collected and suggested that it should rather have compared the provisions of the Hygiene Department with those offered by health insurance companies. He added that "no insurance company can cover what we are doing for the same price...
...facing starvation. Only 161 of their 11,117 families own as many as 200 sheep-the number needed to maintain a mere subsistence level of living. Without big irrigation projects (which could make the reservation capable of supporting 35,000 people at most), their desolate lands are almost useless for agriculture...
...cheerful ignorance of foul regulations and poor conditioning makes House athletes the victims of their own bruising tactics. Without any clear idea of what constitutes an illegal play, teams resort to clipping rather than clean blocking, and stop a runner by useless, dangerous gang-tackles. Some system for adequate training in the fundamentals of football and a thorough explanation of the penalty regulations would cut down on the number of injuries and improve the quality of the game. However, a more explanation of the dangers inherent in a clip or rabbit punch cannot entirely clear the field of illegal plays...
...great many students, veterans with large numbers of technical school credits and those men who have changed their pre-war Concentration fields are no better off than before. Under the new program two terms of technical school still approximate college. Air Corps, A.S.T.P., and Navy V-5 programs dispense useless, but indelible credits and a student graduates with an education composed of one part dive-bombing and three parts Philosophy...
...eagerly embraced Chemistry in 1940 with an eye to an Army commission, but now wants to study Languages sits on the hottest part of the griddle. What seemed expedient in wartime now becomes useless for Concentration. Science credits plus service work combine in a knotty problem that leaves the student frustrated and angry. Since the problems of men with less than eight terms at college have been so effectively solved, the future would indicate an attempt to aid those who, technically, have received a full education, but cannot quite resign themselves...