Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless for a man to assume unnecessary responsibility. The class treasurer will have burdens enough of his own within a few years, and the class fund would be a burden to him if the policies were payable to him. To save him trouble, time and criticism--which is unavoidable for a man in charge of a trust fund--it is far better for the policies to be made payable direct to the University, which will then establish a special investment account for that purpose...
...Navy (coordinate with the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Pershing) on the Joint Board. To his desk will come the report of the umpires of the recent sham war at Panama (TIME, Jan. 28) in which the Pacific Fleet and the Panama Canal were "destroyed" or "rendered useless...
...useless method of solving the world's difficulties. Sooner of later, the real difficulties between men have to be settled by reason. War, even war in the last resort, merely postpones that reasonable settlement...
...complaint maintains that the Blanque Mining Company so carries on its operations that large quantities of sand and gravel are discharged into a river and deposited on the complainant's land, making this land wholly useless. It is asked of the court, therefore, that the company be restrained from continuing these operations and also be ordered to remove from the land the sand and gravel already deposited...
...form of printed notes know that the former brings the higher grade. But in a large number of cases the grade does not count so long as it is "passing high." What is the use of wasting one's time in study when courses are naught but dusty, useless theory...