Word: valuelessness
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Student Councils are already in grave danger of going out of fashion. If they are to become mere shadows of their original selves, functionless and valueless, they cannot expect long to continue in existence. Nowhere does general interest in a Student Council lag as much as at Harvard nowhere are the dangers of that Council's dying a natural death so great. If the Harvard Student Council is to continue to exist and to play an essential part in undergraduate life it must turn its attention with increasing energy and intelligence to those fields which still offer wide opportunities...
...retort, employers construed goodwill as a form of Property. When labor organizers disrupt the relations between workers and employers, are they not destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...
...Thompson has stated that all the works of Sargent and many of those of Whistler will son be valueless because of serious cracking or fading of the paints used by the artists...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...