Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...iron chair, carved to fit your bottom, screwed immovably to the floor, with the right arm designed for writing on, that is widened enough to take one roundish shaped piece of paper or a clip-board, no place to put your elbow, a sort of island in a useless unfriendly void...
Action on the food problem now requires two things. First, it must be proved that a problem actually exists and that complaints are not mere gripes. Last year's Council poll has proved completely useless in doing this. Until the Administration is convinced that the food is not good enough as it is, no major changes in the system will occur...
...part of the dredging for the south abutment of the bridge were completed during the last 15 months by the J. F. White Contracting Company of Cambridge (Joseph F. White '14). The land on both sides of the river and the river bottom itself are thick mud, absolutely useless as foundation for construction...
...treating impotence and frigidity, hormones are useful, says he, only in the rare cases where these disorders are plainly caused by a hormone imbalance. Both homosexuality and milder cases where patients show mannerisms of the opposite sex are entirely psychological in origin, says Perloff. For these, hormone treatments are useless...
...continue its present passive attitude toward Asiatic communism. This is a well-worn track and needs no further exploration. It means a little money here, and a diplomatic note of protest there. It is easy, cheap -and useless. Judging by past experience, this policy would end with Communist domination of Asia...