Word: uselessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young Bob could certainly not be classified as a supporter of President Coolidge. Report has even gone as far as to say that the regulars of Mr. Lenroot's group, supporters of President Coolidge, contrary to Mr. Lenroot's professed confidence, consider it almost useless to make a fight against...
Maneuvering around two grand pianos which took up most of the available floor space of a small Manhattan apartment, a young Jew last week went about the business of packing a suitcase. Old newspapers-the inseparable, useless adjuncts of this operation-lay here and there in crumpled disorder, but two, each containing an item which had been circled with a pencil mark, reposed on a table. The first item related how Composer George Gershwin, famed jazzbo, had recently returned from Europe; the second stated that this Gershwin, when he had finished the piano concerto which Dr. Walter Damrosch has commissioned...
...group of 18, at Pearl Harbor, having a capacity of 150,000 barrels each, were the biggest tanks in the world. One of them was half filled. The other 17 were dry as the widow's cruse, were rapidly deteriorating into a useless mass of rust. Admiral McDonald, Commandant of the Pearl Harbor Naval District, admitted that corrosion had developed in at least one case to the depth of 3/16...
Naval enthusiasts were loud in their praise of the Navy's floating mooring mast, which pessimists had claimed would be rendered useless by the rolling of the vessel; but for more than 12 hours the airship remained securely anchored in a northwest wind blowing 30 miles an hour. On her return voyage, heavy head-on winds were bucked and consequently it took 20 hours to make the trip. The next voyage will be to Porto Rico...
TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: Lake Placid Club has never attempted complete fonetic spelling as yu report (TIME, Apr. 20, P. 16) but it does omit many useless and misleading letters as needed pioneer work. The ending of sing, bring, etc., is neither n, g, nor any combination of n and g, but a simple sound which skolars the world over for almost a century hav represented by a taild...