Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken, and it has a good deal of relevance now that the annual mid-year mayhem is approaching. This was the announced intention of a number of professors--including the heads of the large survey courses--to frame exams with a view to making a tutoring school preparation useless, and further to discriminate against obvious cram parlor answers in making out the grades. Attempts in this direction were made last spring at finals, and this year the efforts will be considerably broadened...
...light. The sea looked cruel as death, and the swell seemed more formidable, the wind increased a little and began to break the tops of the swell. All the boats were shipping a certain amount of water, and we had to bale continuously. The Lascars were worse than useless: they were too paralysed even to bale. I had quite a struggle to keep hold of a blanket I had been given, so anxious were they to hide their heads beneath it. It was pretty cold by this time, and my wretched pyjamas were not much protection against the wind...