Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proclaimed Dr. Colder Lawrence (Methodist) of Tulsa, Okla.: "I hold with Thomas Mann that 'Christianity and Democracy deal with the same human stuff' ... I believe we should go in the war." His fellow Tulsan, the Rev. Edward Henry Eckel Jr. (Episcopal) quoted Dean Inge: "It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism when the wolf is of a different opinion." ∧ San Francisco clergymen held their fire until after Mother's Day, then let fly a volley. "If we don't fight now, we'll have to fight alone," prophesied...
...acetyl choline, one drop of which in liquid form will, if placed on a skin abrasion, quickly induce unconsciousness, followed later by no ill effects. Swiss sources last week said the Germans had experimented with such a gas - with a faint geranium odor - against which ordinary filter masks are useless...
...were handsome, the women well-built but ugly; the popgutted children were masterful horsemen at six. They swarmed with vermin. They kept droves of fierce, useless dogs who got at the meat supplies, bit legs. Each brave took as many wives as he could buy and support; there were no love matches. They were extremely lascivious. By their manner toward him Tixier concluded that sodomy was common. The only Osage who showed kindness to his wife offered her to Tixier for the night for $10. Tixier pretended not to understand...
...reservations were so checkered and subdivided that free movement, tribal unity, and cattle raising became impossible. Of tribal funds held in trust the Government spent 93% on "administrative costs." Every stratagem was worked to acquire for white use key lands along watercourses without which the surrounding territory was useless. In 1887 Indians held 139,000,000 acres, in 1933 47,000,000, much of it arid. Rural slums grew (and persist) near the agencies, where Government rations float the Indians just above starvation. As for the rich "oil royalty" Indians (Tixier's Osages) they amount to less than...
...highly technical subject. In spite of this, it has been two months since a firing problem, the understanding of which is an integral part of the course, has been worked in Mil Sci I. Due to the accumulation of such factors as these, I have, with others, decided it useless to attempt a continuation in Military Science...