Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walled city, it meant little that the main objective of the Japanese planes had been ships and port installations, that this was not indiscriminate bombing. The bombs which, by accident or design had fallen short of the mark along the waterfront, had devastated their homes, drawn militarily useless, innocent blood. But Manilans were not terrified by this savage foretaste of what the Japanese might some day choose to loose against them. They refused to be panicked into headlong flight that might jam General MacArthur's vital military highways. They insisted they could take it, hoped the U.S. Army would...
...chemists have found many uses for these useful chemicals which are best known to the public for their most useless ability: to scuttle a duck by altering water's surface tension and antipathy to oily feathers...
...schoolboy's horror, is perking up again after a long sabbatical in the educational doghouse. During the '30s the proportion of high-school pupils taking math dropped a third in six years, and many an educator dismissed algebra, to the vast relief of pupils, as a useless subject. But last week there were signs aplenty that U.S. schools were returning to the view that there is much to be said for the third...
...volt model, Kerst is shipping his betatron to his laboratory in Illinois to see what discoveries he can make with it. Its electron beams have already penetrated inch-thick aluminum, made copper radioactive. Its medical applications, like those of the cyclotron which once struck the bewildered public as a useless device, must be explored. In time the betatron may be able to produce earthborn artificial cosmic rays, whose fantastic energies - hundreds of millions of volts - now smite the earth mysteriously from among the stars...
...mass meeting Monday night in Memorial hall President Conant specifically warned the undergraduate body against running around like chickens without their heads, hysterically cackling through the Yard. Rushing into Boston to join the Army, Navy, and Marine Force is useless if they do not give some time to rational consideration as to whether by so doing they will be giving the country the best of what they have to offer. Despite this warning Harvard students are already showing signs of panic; already there are vague rumors of a Harvard Regiment similar to the one formed in the last war, with...