Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea whether the Exchange was useful or useless; 13.6% called it "useful and well-run"; 26.8% said "it has done many things it should not have done, but we still need it"; 13.2% thought it "could be a useful institution but it won't be until drastic changes in it are made"; only 4.8% belonged to the radical fringe who believed "it has been a useless institution and should be done away with entirely...
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...Students themselves have expressed the opinion that some of the notes which they have purchased have been so full of errors as to prove useless; others have pointed out that so-called 'word lists' sold by certain bureaus do not contain the proper words and that many of the words are wrong," Dean Hanford says...
Carleton S. Coon assistant professor of Anthropology, criticized the College Tutoring Bureau specifically; after reading the "outlines" sold by the Bureau to students, Coon labelled them as "useless...
...notes would be not only useless as a preparation for the final examinations in that course but also misinforming. I am fully acquainted with the misspellings and general misinformation which they contain," Coon said...