Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important military action by either side had taken place on Nov. 7. Preliminary to the great Franco offensive, Rightist bombers came meanwhile down from over the mountains to blast the living daylights out of Catalan Lerida, later Barbastro, killing some 300 civilians, in the process. It was useless to pretend that the towns lacked military importance. Lerida, a key town in the Leftist defense of Barcelona, was the temporary headquarters of Leftist Commander General Sebastian Pozas, and Barbastro not only contained many Leftist ammunition dumps but was last week an important Leftist base. One of Lerida's bombs landed...
...cover of an early manuscript book is a heavy chain, with inch-long links, by which the volume was attached to its shelf in the days before printing had made books plentiful. On the other hand, the exhibit shows, when printing was invented, binders thought that manuscripts were useless and often cut up beautifully illuminated pages to make stiffening for bindings...
...student is very patient, this hazardous method may suffice for the study of literature, but it is utterly useless for history. Here there is the greatest need for some course to show that Ireland has a culture and tradition of its own, that there is some unity to its long and turbulent history. There are men on the Faculty able and willing to teach these facts, and the University would be wise to make use of them...
...owner, another thief, persuades him to invest money of his own in a fake gambling or brokerage office; arranging with the victim to cheat another member of the gang at cards or dice; selling counterfeit pawn tickets for supposedly stolen articles; selling shares in smuggled property; selling complicated but useless counterfeiting machines. Confidence men also practice such sidelines as extorting money from homosexuals and, more recently, from income tax violators ("the Federal shake...
...bombproof and gasproof cellars with which Buckingham Palace has finally been equipped this year while the Royal Family were in Scotland. During the War, by order of Kaiser Wilhelm, his cousins in Buckingham Palace were never bombed, although nearby Trafalgar Square was bombed repeatedly. Still in place, but considered useless against today's heavy bombs, is "the Steel Helmet," a steel net supporting layers of sand bags strung under the roof of Buckingham Palace...