Word: uselessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Then too, he is an unparalleled idealist in an age when idealism is regarded as useless if not made. In a college where this quality is considered fit only for Y-men and aesthetes, it has been immensely salutary to find it also the life of a great teacher...
...silence. Into the void of Katya's silences came Alenka, peasant wench. But one hurried seance with her left him disgusted, horrified. Then, finally, came a letter from Katya. She was going away, as a mistress. "Don't write to me, my dear love, it is useless!" Mitya shot his brain pan off. The Author. Ivan Bunin, 56, writes with ease and economy. Intimate of the Russian Realists and Symbolists, in all his long writing career he has joined no "school." Russians extol him, but in English have appeared only The Village, in which he flays the grimy...
...querying our greatest universities in advance to know if any player who may obtain a place in the Sun's 1926 team will be allowed to come to New York for the proposed dinner. If before the issuing of any invitations the Sun may know that it would be useless to address invitations to certain institutions, the paper might still give its dinner, but its choice of an All-American team might seem some what disproportionate. Anyhow we hope the colleges themselves will reject these overtures as violations of the spirit for which intercollegiate football ought to stand. Boston Herald...
...wife and I have come to a conclusion that you who run this TIME must be either too fresh or awfully crazy, to waste all that space asking useless questions about who reads a magazine, as if you really cared. You ask questions in absurd ways we think too. Who ever called his children "Males from 10 to 20" or "Females" ? What do you care how many automobiles I got ? I bought your magazine, didn't I and that should be enough...
...Useless Hands...