Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case last year, no attempt will be made in the Confidential Guide to appraise the fields of concentration, as it was decided by the CRIMSON that advice on a field was useless for Freshmen so early in their college career...
...useless, of course, to deny rumors and to ask for retractions. Once started, the harm is done. May I, however, suggest that the Crimson has editorial responsibility of the same character that any other news organ has. To permit publication of an utterly absurd story of this character can serve no useful purpose. I leave the question of good taste to your own maturer reflections. William Y. Elliott...
...promising industry. To answer them lean, balding FCC Chairman James Lawrence Fly last week took to the air. Gist of his defense: if RCA's transmission methods should be superseded by technological developments (now being tested by Philco, DuMont and other RCA competitors), its sets would be useless, purchasers might have to discard them as obsolescent. To make his statement...
...Sector. With a prolonged rain of as many as 300,000 heavy shells daily, the Russian artillery, standing hub to hub, tilted enough forts of the Mannerheim Line to make possible a tank-&-infantry break through. Finns in the forts were jarred but safe until their own guns became useless...
...peace waned, Q. E. grew-got her two funnels, pumps, donkey engines. She came along fast. Cunard set her first voyage to the U. S. for April or May 1940. Then war broke. Q. E. sat useless, an unfinished liability, meat for either sabotage or bombing. Last month fire broke out in her library...