Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...
...hand brake. It's perfectly useless-won't hold at all. And ... I wish they could somehow fix the jeep so that at certain speeds the singing of those heavy tires wouldn't sound like an approaching airplane...
What the British did with this accumulating gold explains the continuing success of their policy up to World War I. They did not bury it in the ground as something sterile and useless. Though much of it was kept on deposit in London, for convenience, it was transferred to the account of others, both in payment for imports to Britain and as new capital for those places where natural resources were great but development slight...
...Congress to exempt U.S. telegraph service from the provisions of the anti-trust laws so that Western Union and Postal Telegraph could merge (TIME, March 8). After that it took less than ten weeks for the two companies to work out the details of a combination to end useless duplication in a business where competition is costly and unproductive. The agreement announced last week: Western Union Telegraph Co. will buy out Postal, through an exchange of stock. Now all that needs to be done to make the merger a fact is for stockholders and a brace of regulatory bodies, including...
...married women teachers, said that other teachers who married would also be ousted. "Economy," explained the Board. The teachers brought suit, charged that the firings were-part of a scheme to give jobs to favorites, collect kickbacks on salaries. The Board, they declared, might better economize by calling off useless work invented for a maintenance force which had swollen...