Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting out from sunny St. Malo, France last May was to skimp on coal...
...spite of her cleverness, she never really owns her treachery; in consequence, her brilliance dissipates itself in smarting, useless pictures...
Thanks to the efforts of two Harvard professors, the iron lung has developed from a useless contraption into an instrument indispensable to a modern hospital's equipment...
...opinion," he told a Senate committee last April, "that the large rigid airship can serve very effectively. . . . Further blue-print and theoretical studies are useless unless we build and experiment-learn by trial and error, as has every other...
...them are prisoners and parolees who have been sentenced to the farm. But there is a limited number of voluntary patients who are chosen directly by the Surgeon General. Rehabilitation is mainly psychological, based on the principle of "sympathetic treatment," for practically all elaborate physical "cures" are either useless or positively harmful. Only method which has given good results is a rapid reduction over four to ten days of the amount of narcotics the addict is accustomed to take (known to addicts as the "iron-cure"). Restlessness is overcome by several ten-minute warm baths a day. This treatment reduces...