Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Further Big Four meetings are useless...
...candidate he backed in a local election, Taniyuki Shimura killed himself by biting off his tongue. In crime-ridden Tokyo, 24-year-old Kan Arai threw himself under a railroad train, "because by becoming a policeman I have discovered the corruption and dishonesty of sublunary affairs. It is useless to be a policeman in such a world...
...N.A.M. The party's economic program sounds like something the U.S.'s National Association of Manufacturers might have mothered. It calls for monetary stabilization to allow industrial growth, elimination of useless wartime restrictions, lower production costs and increased labor productivity, to assure "the recovery of business...
...same kind of controversy before and after they were built. Memorial Hall, built in 1870 as a Civil War memorial was used for many years as a 1000-man dining hall, but its idealistic purpose was soon forgotten. For the last thirty-five years it has been a comparatively useless, as well as meaningless, Harvard landmark...
...daily life is nonsense. . . . But it seems to me there is too little education for its own sake. I do believe that if a boy wants to become a banker, he should emphasize such subjects as economics. . . . I also believe , . . that the so-called 'useless' things-Latin, for example-will help...