Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee so sensibly recognized, it is useless to argue which side is most at fault. Legislators, initiative petitions, green paint, dynamite, burglars, proselyted athletes, and a hundred other things have been used in the fight between the two schools ever since the oldest professor can remember. Presumably it is easier for one man to resign than to fight the firm beliefs and emotions of an entire opposing faculty. But under all the circumstances the failure to bring harmony as Chancellor is no more a complete indictment of Dr. Kerr's ability than the failure of the peace overtures after...
...major sports, minor sports, and the ladies. At this point in the exercises the rostrum was turned over to Clarence C. Little '10, permanent class secretary. He declared that the Class of 1910 had several degrees to confer on its members. A diploma was claimed to be the most useless thing in the world, and for this reason fans were presented with the comment that the Class would have to be "like Sally Rand, not Talleyrand." George A. Parker '10 was the first to be honored. Mr. Parker was the head of the state police of Massachusetts...
American Policy should be formulated in terms of American interests and not in terms of vague principles of international equity and justice. We must recognize that Japan has scrapped the League Covenant, the Kellogg Pact and the Washington Conference Treaties. It is useless to labor over rotting carcasses...
...agreement. Made operative under the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1928 it still left Italy more or less free after Aug. 25 to treat as she would with the League. The Italian general staff, skeptical from the beginning of the Abyssinian adventure, had insisted for months that it was useless to advance until the rainy season was over, about Sept. 1. Of course if the arbitrators could reach a definite agreement before Aug. 26, Italy might be obliged to abide...
...late to help saving another 8,500,000 useless deaths if you could be induced to spread copies of your concise and convincing write-up, just as you have done with "Arms and the Men" which, as you know, produced phenomenal results on two continents...