Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who prefer an education to a commission are equally entitled to the resources of the University. Many undergraduates desire to make every moment of their school life count in acquiring what they regard as something of permanent value. Such undergraduates do not represent wasted ability, nor are they useless to their country. It is a pity that America's foremost university should have so easily and casually overlooked the tremendous importance to the nation of liberally educated...
...Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color at all in his makeup. We sneered at him as a useless character, but he was to get his revenge...
...last six months. But this report and the shake-up in the Ministry of Production failed to silence the Government's critics. Leftist M.P. Emanuel Shinwell, who calls the Cabinet "Winston's Beauty Parlor," cried: "If the Government believes invasion may come soon, it is useless to . . . draw up elaborate schemes for a more or less remote future...
...Thurman Arnold, Assistant Attorney General, still disgusted at having been court-thwarted in his attempt to end A.F. of L. racketeering, charged labor with deliberately obstructing the war effort. Organized labor, said he, exploited the farmers, impeded transportation, made cheap mass production of housing impossible, forced businessmen to employ "useless and unnecessary workers...
...Stumpy, bony-jawed William R. Lowans, ordinary seaman, was in the "pot" (crow's-nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors...