Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Government sorely irked by the lag in Rumanian oil deliveries. But nothing like enough tank cars were available in Constantsa last week to transport the oil on to Germany, and the fact that it was being stored brought out a major secret: Soviet sabotage has rendered almost useless the most direct rail line from Rumania to Germany, which runs for 191 miles through the part of Poland seized last year by Russia...
Answer: "Is it so hard to understand that our high command avoids sensational massacres and the spending of our resources in spectacular but useless blows...
...Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor that Budenny was coming threw the Whites into a panic. After the revolution he was given various Government committee jobs, in most of which he was useless because he could not read or write. At 46 he entered the Moscow Military Academy, graduated with honors...
...Teachers College balance its budget," he cried, "by dropping some of its useless courses. . . . Teachers College, for all its high-sounding name, is not yet out of the class of normal schools, for which the Carnegie Foundation's study of Pennsylvania institutions found a new definition: A normal school is a school where subnormal students are taught by abnormal teachers...
Merk stated last night that after reading the notes sold for History 5a he can say that "they are a reliance worse than useless for any student in the course, whether the student has done his work...