Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe big warships are absolutely useless except for fishing schooners.? I believe a little destroyer is worth more today than a big battleship, and a battleship is not worth much. The submarines are the most efficient arm of the Navy left. Airplanes and submarines together can put out of action all the big ships ever produced...
...useless to legislate against such a personal matter as birth control." Mrs. Cora Hodson, former editor of the Eugenics Review of London and at present Secretary of the Eugenics Education Society, told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "In spite of laws," she continued, "the use of contraceptive measures is extensive among young people and the educated classes in the United States, while there are 24 cities in your country with clinics attempting to spread information on birth control among the lower classes where the birth rate is the highest...
...Drink no alcohol at all. Use strychnine or coffee for stimulants. Cutting the wound and trying to suck out the venom is, he believes, useless...
...beneficial in epilepsy, nervous disease of obscure causes. So the two learned men tried to make the poor venomous fool angry and despatch his poison at a piece of glass. Perhaps wiser than most snakes, perhaps as lazy as most, the cobra spewed forth only a thin and useless spray. The two wise men felt foolish...
...assistance of the Gentlemen of the General Court. His Excellency the Governor, who is spite of the rigor of the weather was most active in exerting himself in supplying the town engines with water which had to be fetched from a distance, the two college pumps being then rendered useless...