Word: useless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussion of self-determination is, of course, academic. The invasion is over, and India possesses Goa by right of conquest. It is also useless to point out that Prime Minister Nehru rejected the pleas of President Kennedy, the mediation offers of Secretary General U Thant, and a Portuguese proposal that international observers be sent to Goa--though none of these things should be forgotten...
...editorial in The Christian Science Monitor was a delight, too. Gambling is morally wrong. It said in effect (no matter what certain parties say) because it is unproductive. Ah. the world of productivity, and the would of those who love life, its foolishness, its whimsical useless tomfoolery--will ever the two come to meet? Is a human moral vision able to manage both...
...there aren't as many wonks in the College." The stiff competition for admission has, as the Bender report warned, led increasingly to a student body of studiers, who have little inclination to abandon the library for football drills. Ned Alpers, the new band manager, warns that it is "useless" to continue "whining for the old band," because the kind of people who composed it are no longer around. Alper feels that with proper recruiting (in the student body) the band can be expanded to 100, "but that is about the limit...
...think you can do better than nature itself does when it gives you the disease." Back at tissue culture after the war, Enders was joined by two research fellows. Drs. Frederick C. Robbins and Thomas Weller. The work was bedeviled by bacteria contaminating the cultures, making them useless before a slow-starting virus multiplied. Virologists began adding antibiotics to their cultures to keep out bacteria; Enders hit upon a particularly successful combination of penicillin and streptomycin. Yet even in uncontaminated cultures, Enders failed to isolate and grow the obstreperous measles virus...
...plants, the gas find improved prospects for development of New Zealand industry, previously stunted for want of a cheap domestic fuel source. Some New Zealanders even launched into heady talk of using the gas to generate the power for electric furnaces that could extract iron ore from the hitherto useless mineral-laced sands of Taranaki province. But in the short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which, if it can be fed into the $56 million refinery...