Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason was easy to read in the sorry figures of Hawaii's weakness. In all the islands there are only 75 fighter planes -many obsolete or obsolescent. The Army has no night fighters, the Navy only a handful. Half the radar stations are useless because there are not enough men to operate them. There are only two antiaircraft battalions operating with modern (radar) fire control near Pearl Harbor...
Although the students generally indicated approval of the scheme, Lloyd K. Neidlinger, dean of the college, was not quite so sure of the propriety of such a radical measure. "Experience at other colleges has clearly indicated that such a survey as this is useless and creates ill-feeling between students and faculty members unless it is carefully managed by persons of superior judgment and questionable integrity," he wrote in a letter to the Dartmouth...
Political intervention cannot stop Peron, especially within the rigidly policed confines of his own state, and economic sanctions are useless on a country as wealthy as Argentina. There remains only the necessity for halting Argentine encroachment by aiding the unproductive states that come under Peron's thumb through their economic dependence. If American farmers can afford to dump leads of potatoes on the ground to protect the market, then they can also supply badly needed foodstuffs for Bolivian miners. A program of adding the economically weak countries of South America to the list of nations benefitting by American food would...
...training rather than an education in the humanities. Oxford's classic Greats (philosophy, Greek & Latin, ancient history), had assumed that everyone was well grounded in Latin & Greek even before entering Oxford. Few war veterans were. And though Greats had cradled premiers and primates, it was now generally considered "useless" to anybody except prospective schoolteachers...
...This] is much more than a fantastic possibility." Gas masks? Useless. Deep underground shelters with efficient air filters might save a few people. But when the wind had passed, the survivors would doubtless find that all animals and plants had died with the unsheltered humans...