Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange step backwards, the Division of History-Government-Economics is applying an old and useless method of correlation to take the place of the examinations abandoned last spring. They are demanding that seniors in the fields of government and economics, and not in history, take one full advanced course inside the division but outside their field of concentration. It remains a mystery why the division considers that a single advanced course in addition to the regular requirements can by itself solve the thorny problem of correlation...
...Compelling the hiring of useless and unnecessary labor...
...citizens (3,000,000 school children, 15 to 17,000,000 adults), 50,000 who are "stone" deaf, i.e., those born totally deaf or who became so before learning to talk. Inhibitions caused by faulty hearing are a commonplace with psychologists. No more than TIME calls Helen Keller useless did it imply that U. S. deaf-mutes were "hopeless...
...through the Swiss side door. > Machine gunners on the forefront of the German advance wore steel armor covering them from neck to crotch. Weighing 30 Ibs. but only 1/20 in. thick, this gear was more psychological than practical. It would deflect only spent rifle or pistol bullets, was useless against aimed fire or grenades...
...They were given useless jobs; no one checked up on whether they worked...