Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Admiral Moffett's report also commented on a vast improvement in airplane engines, particularly as regards endurance. Unless a program of modernization proves practical, the good old Liberty motors, so famed in the War, will be useless for service work. Many a pilot will read of this pronouncement with sentimental regret...
...improved, system of drainage and a new roof covering on the squash courts are expected to prevent the flooding of the courts whenever a heavy snowfall occurs, followed by a thaw. In the past this condition has made several courts useless during a great part of the winter...
...victory was a Lancashire victory." Then, in aside: "What about Cobden ? Was he a Lancashire man ?" The crowd, of course, heard him distinctly and hooted with mirth; whereupon Mr. George commented: "This is a mischevious instrument. I wondered if you heard it." He remarked that protection was useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order to do so, and, even then, British goods would come down the chimney. In another speech he said: "The Government (Protectionist) want us to shoot Niagara...
...Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes declined to participate in the conference, because France had limited the scope of the conference to Germany's " present" capacity to pay reparations (meaning what Germany can pay from now until Jan. 1, 1930). This renders the conference useless, as at least a six-year moratorium of reparation payments must be granted to Germany. Furthermore, French insistence on keeping the Ruhr problem entirely out-side the orbit of the conference was understood to have been another factor unacceptable to the U. S. Government. President Coolidge ("the taciturn") described the conference as restricted...
...working-girl, she fell in love-but in each case laziness sucked the strength from each promising adventure. At last she plucked up courage to go to Chicago -and for a little while she seemed to have conquered the family curse (she was intermittently employed at some rather useless work, but still, employed)-the right young man reappeared just when he should-and then her brother, Herbie, having slept himself out of the Marine Corps, got sluggishly involved in an impossible intrigue - the family fortunes failed-all there was for Dagmar to do was to marry a middle-aged bear...