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Word: useless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Benelux trio are now meeting for the purpose of creating an international authority to govern distribution of the Ruhr's coal, iron, and steel production. But the authority will be useless with the Ruhr owned and operated by the German government-to-be. Future allocations will depend entirely on the policy of that government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reversal On The Ruhr | 12/2/1948 | See Source »

Brynteson explained that activating the recommendations would be useless, since both bender and Reynolds have already turned thumbs down. In addition, Mason Hammond '25, master of Kirkland House is "unalterably opposed" to parking in the triangle be- cause of the "disturbance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Sends Bender New Proposal on Student Rights | 11/24/1948 | See Source »

Campbell was not the first to find uranium north of the Soo. In 1847, U.S. copper prospectors had come across uranium. Because uranium was useless at the time, they mentioned their find only vaguely in reports that lay moldering in Toronto libraries until Campbell looked them up last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Bonanza Revisited | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

Students have already been heard. They have told alumni officials that the inscription would be a useless, empty, somewhat cold kind of memorial. The vast majority of the College wants a utilitarian memorial, preferably a Student Activities Center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memorial Verdict | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...Russia's Andrei Vishinsky. He broke his week-long silence in the council to snarl: "It is useless to think that the U.S.S.R. delegation will bite at this bait. It is naive to believe that the U.S.S.R. delegation will stick to the glue which has been spread over the piece of paper which is now called the Berlin question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Piece of Paper | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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