Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radar ballooned in wartime into a great industry-and then collapsed just as suddenly. Few peacetime uses were found for military radars: they were not much help in navigating commercial airplanes or merchant vessels. They were also too costly, too complicated, and practically useless at very short range...
...Denmark, credits to Greece, help for the British zone in Germany. Keynes stormed that these were "Foreign Office frivolities," which would fritter away too many dollars. He scolded: "The Foreign Office must learn that we have become a poor nation and must cut our foreign policy accordingly. It is useless to have grandiose ideas that we cannot afford to put into operation . . . and our first duty to ourselves and to the world is to safeguard our solvency." They were his last words of advice; he died soon after...
...that it's partly dust and clay), which will be our sole source of heat this winter. The Japs made scrap of most of China's radiators and Nanking electric power is so rationed that electric heaters we brought with us from the States are useless. I might add, incidentally, that there is no cooking gas here; all food is prepared over wood or coal-dust-cake fires. Our lease is for one year. The rent is $500 a month...
...plunges into his small-town rut, half-angrily marries the girl (Donna Reed), battles the villainous local banker (Lionel Barrymore), befriends his fellow men, shoulders the whole town's troubles. When he winds up, despite all his do-gooding, broke and disgraced, he seriously considers throwing his "useless" life into the river...
...Corey report met with praise, and with some apprehension. Professor Arthur T. Jersild of Teachers College liked the report's "emphasis on . . . [the] many kinds of ability. . . . An I.Q. of 200 is useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...