Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world had seen Russians smile before. Was there greater cause for hope this time? It was certainly wrong to assume, as some observers in the West did, that talking to the Russians was useless. It was also wrong to think that, by talking to the Russians, a permanent settlement between the democracies and communism could be achieved. But between these two extremes there was plenty of room for a settlement of specific issues. For this the world could, and did, have hopes...
Last Thursday evening, Council Chairmen presented their final reports summarizing their year's work. Some were able to point to a year of worthwhile accomplishments, but others could only outline vague and useless dabbling. In one case, when called upon to report, a Chairman said he didn't have anything...
...N.A.A.C.P. lawyers decided that the secondhand books (sample items: ten volumes of the Bell Telephone Quarterly, the Rollo Code of Morals') were "worse than useless," and that, considering everything, King George had not even made a respectable beginning. As for Gloucester's Negro schools, the exposed and battered stovepipes were still there, and the toilet facilities were still inadequate. The N.A.A.C.P. took the two counties back to court...
...people were still not mainly concerned with the road to democracy; they worried-like people in the best regulated societies-about the road that would lead them to the 'biggest bowl of rice. In a Tokyo saloon last week Mikizo Kawahara, an unemployed counterman, said: "It's useless to talk to me about democracy and new ideals-get me a job first!" A bearded grocer near by put down his cup of watered sake and nodded: "Life here," he said, "is like trying to do business in a prison without bars...
...jaundice virus in his blood might infect a pool given by 5,000 donors. Drs. Frank W. Hartman and George H. Mangun of Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital think they have found a way to sterilize the blood and kill the virus without making the blood harmful or useless. They have used nitrogen mustard, a war gas, and are now experimenting with a chemical called dimethyl sulphate. To prove the process safe, Dr. Hartman subjected himself to three transfusions. He felt all right afterward. Then he gave sterilized plasma to several hundred patients; none got jaundice (untreated blood that...