Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asking anyone's leave. My dear pedagogues, please confer the inestimable boon on us of reserving at least part of your sermons for those gentlemen who militate in the Opposition camp because the pacification which we sincerely want cannot be obtained by exercise of one-sided and therefore useless patience on our part...
...teaching arithmetic, criteria of social utility should supplant old formal doctrine. "Useless processes": derivation of cube roots; common divisors and least common multiple beyond the power of inspection, metric system, troy and apothecary weights, complex and compound fractions, annual and compound interests...
High schools cram students with useless English...
...long after, he married the beautiful Harriet Westbrook?married her because it was "useless to seek by an individual example to rejuvenate . . . society." Nevertheless, he convinced himself that it was "an act of will, not an act of passion...
Such is the danger latent in the period of graduation. The well-known banalities are less than useless the graduate armed with them is fighting with a straw. The remedies are but two abolish the speeches, or reshape them to the time...