Word: useless
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...return for new bases and command of the Caribbean (see p. 18), the Navy could well afford to let the ships go. Even so, the traded destroyers were no useless hulks. They were indeed "World War destroyers," in the sense that they were designed during World War I. But most of them were completed after the war, and some did not technically become over age (16 years old) until 1938. Small (314 ft., 1,190 tons), lightly gunned, fast (35 knots), they were designed for the use to which the British presumably will put them: long-range convoy and patrol...
...sonorous and flexible voice, his delivery easy, President Roosevelt dwelt on the meaning of TVA. "When I first passed this place . . . there flowed here a vagrant stream, sometimes shallow and useless, sometimes turbulent and in flood, always dark with the soil it had washed from the eroding hills. . . . There were and are those who maintain that the development of the enterprise that lies largely in this State is not a proper activity of Government. As for me, I glory in it as one of the great social and economic achievements of the United States...
Last year an exhaustive poll of the Senior class taken for the Senior Album revealed, among other useless information, that the class of 1940 rated girls' colleges in the following order of popularity: Radcliffe, Welleslcy, Smith, Vassar, Bennington...
...statement "still the bills piled up" is untrue. The meaning of that paragraph (by innuendo) is that the change of name and reorganization were useless-that insolvency continues, which is entirely untrue. The hospital is on a cash basis, meeting all bills as presented. It is not "impoverished," but in fact is in very good financial condition...
...Nicolson: Coward was expected to call on President Roosevelt, "possesses contacts with certain sections of opinion which are very difficult to reach through ordinary sources." Said the London Daily Mirror's acid Cassandra: "Mister Coward, with his stilted mannerisms, his clipped accents and his vast experience of the useless froth of society, may be making contacts with the American equivalents . . . but as a representative for democracy he's like a plate of caviar in a carman's pull...