Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...text itself, chapter after chapter which gives early promise of being interesting and fruitful degenerates either into a mass of facts or goes off on a tangent of generalization which renders the information useless for practical purposes. When, however, Professor wise divorces himself from his charts and diagrams, he writes in a simple concise style. So in the last chapter of his book, dealing not with amateur dramatics but with the subject of the "Dramatic Value in Teaching" he illustrates the value of the psychology of the drama in teaching in a small rural school. He shows that making...
...point is, however, that, on the face of it, the new Constitution will be useless in restoring order in China. The Tuchuns (War Lords) and the Super-Tuchuns have managed very ably to appoint Governors in the provinces-generally themselves. They have large armies for the suppression of lawlessness and anything else that occurs to them. This state of things obviously breathes defiance to the spirit of the new Constitution. The main obstacle to a unified China is the armies of the Tuchuns. They cannot be laid aside merely because the Constitution, says so or because President Tsao-Kun asks...
...these records many amusing incidents of early New England railroads shed light upon the vagaries of popular opinion which had to be overcome. In 1827 the projected railroad from Boston to Albany was declared to be "as useless as a railroad from Boston to the Moon". In 1833 a Connecticut Yankee thanked C. d that he lived in a country so hilly that it was impossible to build railroad there; but, as fate would have it, he lived to see tracks pass within four feet of his house. In 1834 the Boston & Worcester Railroad was obliged to advertise that, contrary...
...opposition. Lord Trevethin's committee concludes that self-disinfection by an intelligent layman is likely to be effective under favorable conditions of discipline and sobriety, but there is little evidence to show that it would reduce the volume of venereal disease in the civil community. It is comparatively useless for women. It is therefore not to be encouraged, and the commercial advertisement of disinfecting drugs and devices should be prohibited. Disinfection by skilled persons at public clinics may be efficient, but is of limited practical value on account of its cost and loss of time. The treatment work...
...heat of yesterday afternoon drove away before the Great Ninth Inning. Others who allowed the predominant blue color of the score up to and even including the seventh inning to sway their scorched spirits in the direction of the exits are suffering sufficiently now to make any recriminations useless. Those who remained had the faith which moves mountains, and as the sun was setting they saw the mountains move...