Word: valuelessness
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There is no doubt that sea lions eat a few salmon, damage a few nets. But the California Fish & Game Commission now believes that they do much more good than harm because they eat valueless and destructive fish such as morays, squid, octopi, dogfish, deepwater crabs. The Commission also believes that there are enough natural checks to keep sea lions from, increasing too fast. It takes six weeks for the pups to learn to swim, and many are drowned before they learn. Others are trampled to death by careless parents. Killer whales and sharks eat sea lions young...
...much in the delicacy of the rider's hands as of the horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost $100 each, he is a thoroughbred race horse considered valueless by his former owner because he could not, or was too clever to, run fast...
...editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth. But it is notable that precisely never does either of them come out and annihilate a book that has been given a fat advertising appropriation...
Aside from the C.C.C. the relief work of the administration has been wretchedly handled. Projects started in haste have been dropped like burning coals. Money has poured into valueless jobs like water over a dam. The Florida canal has been openly repudiated in Congress, leaving the laborers to wonder where their next few dollars are coming from. Cash must be spent on a certain day or not at all. Robert Moses must tear down the Casino by June thirtieth, or leave it forever a blight on the landscape of Central Park...
...criminal methods and an entertaining story for the Post. The combination, a priori is impossible because of the limitations in length imposed by the murder story form. The author has written with a detail fitting for a scenario but as neither essay nor fiction, the book is disappointingly valueless...