Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jury were professional burglars and believed robbery an honorable profession, it would be useless to try a man for robbery...
...enter the Chamber, thanks to our tolerance, only after its leaders have made three public declarations: Uno. That the Fascist Revolution has become an accomplished fact, the Fascist régime, which has so altered the Constitution of the Italian state that any preconceived opposition to Fascismo is politically useless and historically absurd. Duo. That the nefarious and scandalous campaign of the Aventines has miserably failed, because it rested upon no foundation. Tre. That the Aventine pledges itself to cease to act in concert with Anti-Fascists abroad...
...pronounce at this time any final judgment on the best books of the past year is impossible, and to attempt it is ridiculous. But it is possible and perhaps not altogether useless to consider briefly those books which now seem interesting, worth reading or examining. I don't pretend to have read all the books I shall mention, and whatever hasty opinions of them I give are formed merely from what I've read in or about them, or from an undigested consensus of the remarks of other people. As my list is made up almost wholly from memory...
...unwrapping of the old young body, a most delicate operation, re- quired seven days. The years had reduced it to a powdery condition. X-rays were found useless because the body, fixed in a thick pitch- like substance, impervious to X-rays, could not be extracted from the coffin. Medical experts also reported that a form of spontaneous combustion had destroyed the bandages and rendered the skin and underlying tissues brittle. It was, however, established that the King's age was on the baby-side...
...grudge against the city? His Manhattan managers say not. Nevertheless, all efforts to book him there have long been given up as useless. "He will not appear as a public entertainer before diplomats who knew him as a Premier of Poland," said some. "He hates the Administration because it opposed the League of Nations," conjectured others. Whatever the reason, managers went out to find a hall for him as near Washington as possible; tried Hyattsville, Berwyn, Laurel, Rockville; chose Hagerstown...