Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great nations which adhere to gold as a medium for settling balances. Would Mr. Morgenthau take some of China's silver in exchange for gold? Mr. Morgenthau was delighted for he is supposed to buy silver under the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. Some of his useless gold would be put back into use; he would get back some of the money he had spent for it since silver certificates must be issued against the silver acquired...
...country club swimming pool in St. Louis appeared Ray Woods, the professional high-diver who four months ago fractured his spine in a 187-ft. dive off the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (TIME, April 5). He could swim with his arms but his legs are still useless...
Twin bugaboos of Mr. See were modern trends in education and modern trends in womanhood. In many a testy paragraph he inveighed against 1) the stupidity of school superintendents and pedagogs, who overtaxed their pupils' brains with useless study; 2) the brazen influence of women who demanded equal rights for an inferior sex. So copious and infuriated did Mr. See become that at length he composed a book, published it in 1928 with a bitter title: Schools. Sample thoughts...
...received a troubled letter from Rev. Theodore C. Hume of Chicago and 14 other Congregational ministers. Mr. Hume and his colleagues wanted to know if Mr. Babson had told his businessmen subscribers, in a special letter of his Babson's Reports, that U. S. churches have accumulated "useless customs and cobwebs"? Had he further remarked that the German Government in emphasizing a creed based on "four simple but vital foundations" (Faith, Blood, Sacrifice, Love) "may be taking a forward step which our churches should have taken long...
Neutral observers agreed with him. For 73 days the city that had never yet fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack. Last week the Basques counterattacked where they could, stormed hillsides, blocked roads with tanks, but their artillery was almost silent and their planes were useless. As had happened many times before in this shoestring war, Bilbao was falling for lack of munitions. At a 3 a. m. conference the Basques voted to hold out to the end, but at the front men were fighting with knives and stones. Down the coast road to Santander, 50 miles...