Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What therapeutic significance attaches to cathode rays was to be suggested shortly by a preliminary report of doctors at the Albany Medical College, now experimenting. Experts at Columbia University reported having tried cathode rays in cancer treatment and found them practically useless...
...neglects his muscles, they become flabby," he said, "and similarly, if a man neglects the exercise of his mental and moral faculties, these become atrophied and useless. When all our acts are preordained and regulated by law, there is left no field for the exercise of our judgment, determination, or any of our faculties. These become stagnant, and the individual, deprived of that which made him an individual, becomes a mere puppet in the hands...
...last Saturday afternoon, Coach Horween defeated a team using a six man line defense, and proved that against a good offense the principle of the roving center is useless, recalling a play worked out by W. H. Lewis '95 in 1898 to oppose the previously irresistible "guards back" formation...
Dartmouth found her aerial attack useless against the men from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Resorting to straight line drives, the Green backs put over three touchdowns for a 21-0, victory, but all this scoring was done in two periods, and for the remainder of the game the southerners had the Granite Staters on their toes constantly to avert possible scoring threats...
Holidays are really anachronisms, made vital by the fact that there is still, even in the college mind, a semplance of schoolboy delight in staying away from class. The baneful part is that the vacation is so limited as to be practically useless. Even the senior must return for his first class, remain for his last. Yet most undergraduates would defend them. One cannot lose conventionally in a fortnight...