Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Missouri Pacific.- (b) The roads in many cases have been run merely for speculation and stock jobbery; case of Erie road, C. F. Adams. "Chapters on Erie," p. 61 fol. N. A. Rev. Vol. 139, p. 53. Hadley, Railroad Transportation, p. 48.- (c) Waste of capital in useless roads, e. g. "Nickel Plate," West Shore, Chi. St. Paul and Kansas City, etc.; Bradstreets April 25, 1885.- (d) Monopolies have been fostered by unjust personal and local discrimination; Interstate Com. Com. rep. I, 503; Standard oil case.- (c). Effect of railway corporations on politics, case of Boston and Me. and Concord...
...LATHAM, Sec.FOUND.- Yesterday afternoon on Holmes field, a number of baseball season tickets, now useless. Owners please apply No. 1, McNamee Block...
...seats all connected by a wooden rod. This is only a temporary scheme to teach the new men the proper idea of the recover. This was also tried for a short time on the '84 crew before they went on the water and it was given up as useless. The sophomore crew in 1883 rowed in the class races with a similar arrangement, but found it very unsatisfactory-they came in third. The plan is only intended to be temporary of course but it is rather interesting to watch the men try it. Strange to say most of them find...
...graduates for help they do not ask it of every man who has received a degree from the University, but who never did anything for athletics while in college. Such men, armed with theories which a man who has spent a year or two in training knows are utterly useless, can accomplish nothing. It is men of this type who make all the trouble, and who make the undergraduates disgusted. Such men had best do all they can to urge other men of recognized ability to give advice. The athletic teams are over-eager to follow the teachings...
...decided that his shoulder was hurt, and after some discussion Captain Cumnock allowed Bliss to take his place. Rhodes went at the centre and ran into Cranston's arms. Perry Trafford was giving the giant Heffelfinger a livelier game than he is accustomed to play, and it was useless for Captain Rhodes to send his men against Harvard's centre. B. Morison kicked to prevent the ball from going to Harvard on four downs. A minute later Trafford sent the ball well back. Again the Yale backs bucked the centre in vain; Upton, Newell and Finlay in turn prevented gains...