Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Perfected late in the War, Lewisite never saw active service. Shells containing it are said to have been buried deep underground after the Armistice, tanksfull towed to sea and sunk. It is said to be so deadly that a relatively small amount would devastate a large area, making it worthless for crop cultivation for ten years...
Next day, business was completely held up for a whole afternoon and part of an evening by battalions of irate men and women, armed with walking-sticks and umbrellas, who beseiged the Reichstag building. Nationalist Deputies had promised in the last election to revalorize their worthless bonds, but nothing had been done...
...popularity, Boswell may rightly be given a large part of the credit. But before saying finally that Johnson's biographer "made" him, one will do well to recall Garlyle's assertion that few men's lives are worth writing. Can it be, then, that Johnson's life was intrinsically worthless? Surely no one who has read Boswell will say that. Johnson was a great character, and the most profound literary force in England in his day. He was fortunate to have had Boswell for a biographer. But Boswell's position was that of a press agent. He called the public...
...most interesting aspect of the whole matter. They failed to point out the economic background of the struggle. Two thirds of a century ago the desert provinces which later bred war and whose present place as a storm center of controversy was emphasized by the award, were regarded as worthless, and the boundary lines of Chile, Peru, and Bolivia in that territory were but roughly defined. Then the spread of scientific farming methods, and the inadequacy of the South American guano deposits to meet the demand for fertilizing nitrates, led to the discovery and exploitation of the vast desert deposits...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Italian peasants of California involved in a triangle of the old husband, the young bride, the worthless lover. Pauline Lord gives what is probably the best performance of the season...