Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
...outcome of this new attack by General Rommel over a stretch of ground that for the most part was infertile, inhospitable, useless, might well give the key to the fortunes of the African war in "the next year, perhaps for longer. For the fight in the desert was no cavalry skirmish. It was part of a great campaign for control of the Mediterranean, the great prize athwart the traffic of the United Nations to the Near East, to Russia and even on to Singapore...
Germans who were inclined to criticize the Nazi campaign in Russia had been reminded by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop that it was useless to rebel against a dive-bomber. Most Berliners seemed heavily apathetic to what was called "the new type of winter warfare in Russia," to Hitler's declaration of war against the U.S., to Japan's Far Eastern successes...
...double-duty lives is the uniform. The uniform stands for our new spine of purpose, our initiative in getting women working, splayed out into hundreds of different jobs, to find talents which have been mossed over. It means that we know that it is time to stop all the useless little gestures, to stop being the Little Woman and be women...
Such exercises are worse than useless, many modern teachers believe, because 1) in real life most computations involve numbers under 100, 2) pupils can spend their time more profitably checking simpler computations, learning how to trace and correct their errors, 3) they need to learn the principle of "approximation": i.e., that perfect accuracy in any measurement is an unattainable ideal. Heaviest charge modern teachers lay against traditional math teaching is that its artificial exercises fail to teach pupils how to solve practical problems...