Word: uselessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three United Mine Workers, three operators and Secretary Davis constituted the committee which did most of the actual conferring. When they had finished Secretary Davis issued statements. His points: 1) "It is useless for small operators to attend any conference unless the major operators attend and agree to remedial measures." 2) Congress alone has power to force the coal industry out of the morass in which it now is." 3) "The morass" is overdevelopment: too many mines, too many miners. 4) Left alone, the strongest, operators would survive the present cut-throat competition "at fearful cost to those too weak...
...true that if specialization is not modulated by the philosophy of business, or science, or whatever the field may be, the exponent may be a useless cog, or even dangerous as a theoretical bigot. This was the blight, in the form of a superiority complex, to which Dr. Butler ascribes the death of interest in the classics. No doubt a society of the widely informed, not soporific with erudition, would be the cultural utopia. But as long as civilization goes ploughing ahead in the present direction, moles seem indispensable as ground breakers. There is no reason for salvaging persons...
...Governors of the 48 states; there were letters from them all, a farewell appreciation for "a lifetime of self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried, kissed Walter Damrosch who had presented them, and made a speech: "Now I say goodbye, but that does not mean that I shall become useless. I hope still to continue to serve my country. Heretofore I have given my heart to the soldier boys, but now I must look after the girls-if they behave themselves and don't smoke or powder their noses-for you know I am looking for a contralto...
...heretofore, no attempt will be made to include every course beginning after the midyear examination period; to do so would be both useless and impossible. Only those courses which are deemed of sufficient interest to the general undergraduate body will be considered. The criticism of each course will be an attempt to present a succinct and honest judgment both of the subject and its manner of presentation...
...operation is relatively simple. Nor is it difficult in a hospital for women to get healthy ovaries for transplanting. Many perfectly fertile women must have their glands removed for one cause or another. The tactful surgeon can easily persuade them to dispose of their useless organs to a sister unhappy in a different way. The actual transfer of the glands (cutting of the ovaries from one woman and stitching them into another) should not take more than 30 seconds...