Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand (by Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge) that the U.S. acquire immediate air bases in Siberia ignored the fact that bases are useless until they are equipped. And before the bases could be equipped, said the President, the Japs would be marching into Siberia. Are you and I, he asked, prepared to stand up and say, as a matter of grand military strategy, that Russia should go to war with Japan? What if the Russians say they are doing something more important...
...Common journalese: 'Traffic deaths in the month of September total 64.' Why 'the month of? September doesn't have to be identified as a month. Three useless words total 115 pounds of newsprint when published in all Scripps-Howard papers...
...overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...
...search of something that nobody could ever have any use for ... and B-ruther-r-r we have found it. Eureka! . . . down at Manny Vezie's Gallery of Shoe Reconstruction, we have a contraption priced at $7.50 that cannot be worth a shiny steel penny. It is useless, badly designed, overpriced . . . what it is supposed to be is a shoe shining set. . . . It's a silly gadget. We promise you you don't want...
...leave it to your intelligence to decide whether it is likely that we should waste our efforts on targets whose destruction is useless for our purpose. . . . We repeat that we shall be aiming at military objectives...