Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many a notable evening address there was, particularly Professor Krogh's. He complained that thousands of physiological investigations went on each year, that thousands were being reported, that thousands were useless, that no one was able or inclined to analyze and synthesize the work done. He urged international co-operation to abstract useful findings...
...London, last week, where he is living in retirement, General Sutton authoritatively said: "The Manchurian Army, with which I was actively associated for five years, during which it virtually conquered two-thirds of all China, is easily the best equipped and most efficient in China. But it would be useless against Russia...
...winner in 1926:27-28, is a good old wagon seemingly in the process of breaking down. Player Ruth, several times out of the game for illness this season, last week strained himself charging after a fly. Pitcher Herbert Pennock, after a career of some 15 years, was almost useless during the first part of the season. None of the other clubs have much chance of finishing better than third, unless the Yankees' rate of decay becomes unduly accelerated...
George Mosher, 14, "kala-azar victim" (TIME, July 1), died last week. Ten blood transfusions, the interest of the Rockefeller Institute and the New York Health Department, the hard work of his hospital doctors, all were useless. Autopsists sought for the rare Asian microbe of kala-azar (tropical black fever) supposed to have killed him. But no organism was found. The verdict: he died of an unusual anemia, called idiopathic aplastic (self-forming, non-tissue-building...
...Soldiers wearing the uniform of our government now leading an idle and useless life, violating their oaths and obligations, drinking and carousing even in foreign ports, would be explaining how the law had always had their respect...