Word: valueless
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...have little present value" because no commercial method has yet been developed for extracting oil from shale at a reasonable market price. To this the World in turn retorted: Why, then, have big oil companies been so eager for the land ? Try and buy some now and see how "valueless...
...market's 8,000 on opening day). Some old New Yorkers can still recall the high hopes they had when they bought Bertha & Edith at 8?, the higher hopes when six months later it was 39?, the chagrin when it was stricken from the list as valueless...
...There has been not enough emphasis on self-culture, too much on piecemeal amassing of practically valueless facts...
...have an old collection of books that appears to be quite valueless do not dispose of it without first comparing the illustrations with a list such as Mr. Drepperd provides. Apparently some of the best prints were used to illustrate books. The division of early American caricature is ably covered and serves to round out an excellently written and thoroughly serviceable book. In many ways the author has done for one section of prints what Hind has done for the whole field...
...appeal as a subject for concentration is a refutation of the theory of our fathers that Economics as taught in college may be interesting enough, but that the scientific ideals are of no use to the hard-boiled financier. Undergraduates would not specialize in something which they considered mere valueless theory...