Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Club awarded its yearly title to L. W. Tupper of Patricia, Alberta. His story: a northwester blew away every one of the 2,000 pestholes an Alberta rancher had dug last summer and carried them clear out of the country. After bouncing over 125 miles of cactus they were useless-so full of holes they wouldn't hold dirt any more...
...fashionable Hedvig Eleonora parish: "I have read this with the greatest discomfort." Said Dean Anderberg of Uppsala, chief of Swedish army chaplains: "For that kind of thing I can only use the old-fashioned word 'heresy.' When religion is degraded to serve human desires, it becomes entirely useless...
...Dean spoke again of the College and how there would always be a place for Vag in the local scene. The Dean suggested Vag fill out a petition, but warned him in the same breath that it would be useless. He again mentioned tradition...
...telescope's most serious trouble is a "bulge" in the massive mirror. The outer edge, 18 inches inward from the rim, is 20 millionths of an inch too high. This infinitesimal error, observable only by the most refined tests, is enough to make the telescope useless for serious astronomical purposes. Until it is removed or corrected, the distant nebulae a billion or so light-years away will keep their privacy...
...postulant for Holy Orders, as a graduate of Harvard, as a veteran of the 1st Division, as an admirer of Lincoln, I cannot believe that a state, useless tablet or plaque will serve to memorialize the sacrifices of my class mates and friends. Let us by all means have, as Mr. Warren suggests, something which "seek to radiate the thought of heroic sacrifice" Let it be a thing of beauty and nobility. But it must point beyond itself and even beyond the men to whom it is dedicated to fulfill these functions...