Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyes, doubtless, the vote of the Union Committee to give up mid-year reviews was wise. Last year the Freshmen found them largely useless, and a few instructors who took great pains to prepare for the reviews faced non-existent audiences. Several courses in Physics and other fields having joined the group which give summaries in class, and some professors like Holcombe in Government 1 deciding that a three hour session is futile, the proponents of the scheme had to talk in an atmosphere of failure. Only extremely hard work by members of last year's Committee made the reviews...
Tudor Gardiner '40, first speaker for the negative, said that an embargo and arms would be useless, and might in fact become harmful. 'Are we to tie the hands of a government hit by civil war?" he asked...
...such a sickly infant that her Great-Uncle Giovanni (Pope Leo X) was doubly disgusted with her. What was needed at that point in the Medici fortunes was a healthy boy. Having at last attained the Papacy, the Medici clan were in imminent danger of petering out. But useless as she might be in her own small person, Uncle Giovanni planned to use her as a political pawn, schemed how to marry her to best Medici advantage...
...Italo-Ethiopian crisis of last winter, it would have been beneficial to have known beforehand that "Sanctions" as the League of Nations chose to apply them were going to be worse than useless. If it had been further known that the British were secretly playing tit-tat-toe with Italy and France behind Geneva's back (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935, et seq.}, the League states would never have voted Sanctions. In lost trade, Sanctions must have cost at least $275,000,000-a particularly dead loss. Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been...
...speech. Mr. Baldwin dwelt upon the evils arising from too little contact between "distinguished Britons," presumably including the King and himself and "distinguished Americans." In his peroration, which seemed to promise eventual cracking of British obstruction to such contact, the Prime Minister cried: "Uninformed criticism on both sides is useless and might, in fact, do each country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words: "Whatever...