Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature pure iron is scarce. In industry it is practically useless. But alloys of iron when they are hard, flexible, rust and corrosion-resisting are vastly important to modern civilization. To discover new and better alloys, to manufacture the known and useful ones is a paramount concern of such great companies as Central Alloy Steel Corp., Ludlum Steel Company, Krupp. But their research and manufacture are for their particular business. Man may enjoy the benefits thereof but the company of course profits by the company's knowledge. Last week, however, the Engineering Foundation initiated a fiveyear, non profit-making...
...where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes at neutral, take their hands off the controls, fold their arms and apathetically wait to get out of the fog, or to crash...
...opponent of the 'undifferentiated efficiency' of the modern college and university. I believe that these institutions should be reserved for men who plan to enter the advanced professions, such as toaching. Harvard, among others, is taking a great many men for whom a college equation is an expensive, and useless, luxury...
Harangues. First, however, the leaders of the hosts paused to harangue their followers and enemies. Field Marshal Simmons leaped upon the breastworks and spoke first, for three hours. He charged the tariff bill with putting useless and ineffective duties on farm products many of which are not imported at all, with taxing, exorbitantly, the things the farmer buys, with taxing necessities of the public more than the luxuries of the rich, with increasing duties for industries already prosperous, with giving the President too much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked...
...physical and physiological activities which it 'controls) so that the reappearance of a stimulus causes the old response. Sight of a milk bottle makes the baby suck his lips. Sleep, he considers, is the result of inhibitions keeping stimuli from overworking the brain or causing it to do useless work. The human brain, he told the physiologists, is the most fruitful and most important study now confronting science...