Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fourteen-inch guns from a range of 30,000 yards-5,000 yards beyond the range of the forts. Then, drawing closer, it destroyed the Miraflores locks with its longest range guns, while 82 fourteen-inch guns concentrated on the forts. The destruction was complete. The Canal lay useless...
...asked Britain to guarantee money lent to the other Allies, and he repudiated Lord Balfour's contention (note to the Allied Powers on War Debts, Aug. 1, 1922) that the United States Government had so insisted " in substance, if not in form." Not content with having made a useless diplomatic blunder, Mr. Harvey was willing to prove it; for he implied that the British Government would withdraw the "unfortunate allusions" made by Lord Balfour six months...
...reparations is necessarily concomitant with military strength. This France does not want Germany to regain. The position of Germany is simply this: France has said to them: 'You must pay a fine of $10,000 or go to jail'. But they only have $1000, and it would be useless to pay that, for lacking $9000, they will go to jail anyway...
Meanwhile, there is a question whether the desirable features of the picnic permitting as it did an informal class "get-together", cannot be provided by some other means. Any suggestions that the Committee receives will be cagerly considered, but they will be useless unless they eliminate the absurdities and exaggeration that made the old Senior Picnic a nuisance and even a danger...
Copies of the final examination of past years are neatlty bound for reference, some in book and some in pamphlet form. The mid-year papers, however, are not only unbound, but as a result are practically useless. They lie in a confused mass, torn and obliterated, on a single window at the right of the delivery desk, like the rejected poems in an editor's basket. A lack of systematic arrangement makes it a matter of diligent search to find any specific paper. And instead of being a public good, offered freely for general use, the papers have become highly...