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Word: uselessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distracted one's attention from the useless things she said...

Author: By R. M. M., | Title: THE CRIME | 12/20/1928 | See Source »

...personages mentioned above are all purely Buddhist in origin, but pre-Buddhist divinities are also well represented in the Buddhist sanctuaries of the present day. The very gods whose worship was denounced as useless or reprehensible by Shakyamuni Buddha occupy important positions in a great number of temples. Brahma, the creator, a purely Indian divinity, is worshipped by many present day Buddhists...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BARON VON STAEL-HOLSTEIN DESCRIBES WIDE DIVERGENCY OF BUDDHIST SECTS | 12/13/1928 | See Source »

Radioactive dust and emanations entered his system. They attacked his bones, prevented his marrow from making red blood cells. Aplastic anemia developed. Sojourn in high altitudes and 13 blood transfusions were useless. To void the radium that was in him would require, he once figured, 3,520 years. But eight years was all that he lived after he discovered what was wrong with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of Radium Painter | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...useless to lash with any fury the undoubted victory which the forces of intolerance have gained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Politicules | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...with a Boston evening newspaper may or may not be a clue to the identity of its editors, who, like their printers, have not seen fit to acknowledge responsibility in the usual manner. There is something delightful about the underselling of an official program; when, however, the program is useless for its purpose in the mind of the purchaser, it becomes misrepresented merchandise. As such it is punishable under law, whose enforcement, as a preventative measure, the CRIMSON suggests to the city of Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROGRAMS, TOO | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

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