Word: valueless
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the American Construction Council, took occasion recently to score the irresponsible groups who were putting up buildings of an inferior and showy character. Predicting that many of them would be almost valueless in ten years, he pointed out how unsound as investments mortgage bonds were bound to be when secured by such construction. He attributed high rents in large measure to the high rates of insurance charged upon structures built of inferior materials...
...Felton took the unpurified serum as it was drawn from the blood of a horse. He filtered it, treated it electrically and chemically, tried always to extract rom it a pure solution of antibodies, ree from the injurious by-products that hitherto had rendered the horse serum nearly valueless. Eventually Dr. Felton found that when one part of the horse serum was mixed with ten parts water a white, fluffy precipitate appeared. He collected this precipitate, purified it, found that it dried into a white crystalline powder which he suspected contained the antibodies in highly concentrated form. Mice. Dr. Felton...
...evacuation of his stronghold and "capital," the port of Vera Cruz. General de la Huerta declared that he had not ordered the evacuation compulsorily, but voluntarily, "in order to liberate for active service in the field the several thousand troops defending the railways approaching the port, which was almost valueless as a base of operation." The rebel leader was later reported to have established a "capital" or base at Tuxpam in the State of Vera Cruz. Another report gave the place as Merida, capital of the State of Yucatan...
...speculations in Wall Street (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, made public letters accusing Leonard Wood, Jr., former Army Captain, the older son, of having "victimized" ex-service men and others by selling them oil and bank stocks which proved to be almost valueless...
...narrow path of promptness and efficiency, it would be cause for regret and nothing more. But it is not, for, in the past, the Register, for which the Student Council is generally and financially responsible, has often either lost money or appeared at a date which made it practically valueless. In the spring of 1922 its debt, after the receipts of the year, remained at $1100. In the college year of 1920-21, it did not appear until late in March...