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Word: worthlessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frank Firk, chairman of the physics department said the reports are worthless because at 4 on a Sunday afternoon you might spend five minutes thinking about a research problem then the next five minutes thinking about Tuesday's lecture...

Author: By Compiled FROM College newspapers, | Title: Grant Regulations | 4/10/1982 | See Source »

...Jack's life into cocktail party epics. At Groton, the reverend Endicott Peabody delivered a sermon on "the egg who just got by." During World War II, the Nazis took him prisoner. "For once in his life, he had found himself in a situations where his privileged position was worthless. He had been forced, willy-nilly, to become a common man. "While Jock's escape from the Germans was courageous. Jock seemed to view the experience more as a picnic outing than a "sobering ordeal." He worried that the Germans had crushed the ripe pears that he was carrying. Though...

Author: By Peter Kolodziej, | Title: Loaded But Human | 3/3/1982 | See Source »

...poll that does not include Houston in the Top Ten desirable places to live is worthless [Jan. 11]. Houston is the only city in the U.S. where the frontier spirit and the American Dream still reign supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 8, 1982 | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...admitted that the top officials of his bank had given themselves $2.4 million in interest-free loans to protect their margin accounts in National City's stocks. Of the $50 billion in new stocks issued during the 1920s, another congressional committee said, "fully half have proved to be worthless . . . fraudulent." And when Utilities King Samuel Insull carried thousands of investors into bankruptcy, he protested at the prospect of indictment: "What have I done that every banker and business magnate has not done in the course of business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: F.D.R.'s Disputed Legacy | 2/1/1982 | See Source »

...Crimson squad made an innumerable number of turnovers. The easiest baskets didn't fall through the hoop--even the many layup opportunities turned out to be worthless...

Author: By Andy Doctoroff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Women Cagers Fall, 53-52; 4th Period Slump Keys Loss | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

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