Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed his identity. Suddenly upon this point the Soviet press reversed, proclaimed last week under banner headlines that every voter was privileged to sign the ballot, thus proving his or her individual loyalty to Bolshevism and to Stalin, thus giving all citizens the privilege not only of casting a useless ballot, but of usefully registering themselves as supporters of the right people...
Such are his peculiarities, but one thing about him will never be known: his I. Q. Since he devised most intelligence tests and knows all the answers, it is quite useless to try to test...
According to Dr. Alfred Vagts's The History of Militarism, "much of military history is misleading as a result of the authors' deliberate intentions," most of the rest so stereotyped it is useless in determining what happened in any war. The confusion of battle is perpetuated because generals edit the official reports, and "word their orders in such an oracular fashion that victory, if it comes, can be traced to them, while failure, if it befalls," can be blamed on somebody else. To make sense of these bewildering official...
...function effectively. The fellowship men should be permitted to affiliate themselves with any department of the University, graduate or college, and they should be allowed to change from one department to another at reasonable intervals, or to participate in more than one at the same time. But to avoid useless dabbling as a result of this privilege, fellowships must be awarded to men who would not abuse their opportunities. This may be done by choosing men whose interest in some phase of journalism has been clearly established. Provision might also be made for traveling and visiting other universities where specific...
...week as some 12,000 Chinese troops were being asked to make a "last stand" just outside Shanghai's French Concession. The French hastily dug trenches and strung barbed wire, exchanging shouted comments with the Chinese soldiers many of whom were for frenzied resistance while others cursed "the useless sacrifice our Government is making...