Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After school, Homer learns to be a man. His teachers are his boss, benevolently eccentric Tom Spangler (James Craig), and old Grogan (Frank Morgan) the telegrapher, who drinks every night to forget the sad messages that come over his wire. Freckled, four-year-old Ulysses (Jack Jenkins), called "Useless" for short by his playmates, is Homer's kid brother. He constantly asks unanswerable questions, learns about life from such simple but significant incidents as a Negro's friendly wave from a passing freight train. Other Macauleys: Mother (Fay Bainter), Sister Bess (Donna Reed), who goes to college...
...Germans expended the absolute minimum on the conquered Ukrainians, extracted the utmost. For Russian handicraft products the Germans exchanged useless junk imported from the Reich. German firms opened offices in the large cities, blanketed the countryside with traveling salesmen. Solely to survive, some Ukrainians cooperated with the Nazis who had come to organize "free trade." Rather than starve, Russian bootblacks served German soldiers at street-corner stands. Other Russians opened photographic studios, candy shops, cafes. But even Berlin newspapers have admitted that the spirit of subservience to the Germans is rare in the Ukraine...
...long as Lend-Lease lasts (and it may continue for several years into the peace), this discrepancy between imports and exports may continue. But soon or late, unless the U.S. wants to continue giving away goods without return from the rest of the world (or resume the acceptance of useless amounts of gold as in the '30s), exports and imports will have to be brought back into something approaching balance...
Frankly, the library is a useless place. That is, for the average undergraduate; unless he is able to read languages other than English. A book in English is looked upon as a rarity at the library. Greek, Latin, Pig-Latin, French (Louis Quatorze style), and Esperanto seem to be the popular idiom among the clientele of the establishment, most of whom have spent a good deal of their lives learning to read these languages so that they might peek into one of the many thousands of volumes therein. These people, their friends call them curators, also know something about comparative...
...victory meant much more than the destruction of a great army. It meant the complete failure of Hitler's 1942 strategy in Russia: to outflank Moscow from the south, render the Volga lifeline useless to the Russians and secure the German flank driving through the Caucasus toward Baku and the Middle East. It also meant that the Red Armies defending Stalingrad and the Volga were free to push west and join the armies smashing at Rostov and Kharkov...