Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manager offered the body to famed Tulane University in New Orleans, "because Jack always wished some school be given the opportunity to study his glandular system."* The surviving next of kin, Sister Katharine Eckert, 74, of Fort Wayne, Ind., agreed. But Tulane refused the offer because fat cadavers are useless for the study of anatomy. Hinted, also, were Tulane's fears that Jack's sister might change her mind at the last moment or that there might be legal complications about getting a body across the Alabama-Louisiana State line for anatomical study...
...capable orators without an opportunity to exercise their talents. Second comes a lack of participation on the part of those who are only mildly interested, men who, because of an indifferent hierarchy at the top, inadequate organization of meetings, and little or no chance for coaching, have felt it useless to come out. And third, the present excellent coach has been able to give time from his business activities only to the leaders in the important intercollegiate contests...
Even more useless than her stunt is the New York-to-Paris Derby fostered by the French government as a memorial to Lindberg's flight ten years ago this May. So many organizations and individuals have pointed out how little the race would do for publicity and good-will if some of the fliers were killed that the plans have been changed. Though the entrants are no longer expected to start simultaneously and on the same date that Lindbergh flew, no matter what the weather, the Derby is still dangerous and futile. Lindbergh himself would probably prefer the prize money...
...fine, well balanced squad. And the justification of that prediction was shown at least in part in that meet in Ithaca's Drill Hall as the Cornell trackmen snowed under the Elis on the boards so completely that the bulldog superiority in some of the field events proved useless...
...Sent to the Rules Committee (over the protest of Chairman O'Connor, who wanted it to go to the "Committee on the Disposition of Useless Papers") a resolution of Massachusetts' Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers, calling for an investigation into the possibility of retiring House members...