Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special Congressional session for the flood district was the theory that hastily established credit organizations would take care of the flood victims' troubles. It appears the universal opinion, however, that these organizations have totally failed to function. Banks are already overloaded with farm "paper" that has become worthless; even the most liberal system of lending money considers some security essential and the farmers have no security to offer. Mr. Craig (quoted above) said that the farm credit corporations were "absolutely worthless." Mr. J. M. Barham, bank president at Avoyelles, La., said: "The banks would like to help but they...
...When I meditate on the awful junk that I carry around in my pouch masquerading under the name of "magazines" and so forth, I often wonder why apparently sane people do not take the $5 that they annually spend for a number of worthless publications, and concentrate that amount on a subscription to TIME. Every time I've sent you 55 I have received $95 worth of knowledge...
Native weapons, ceremonial drums, clothing and all kinds of trinkets affected by the inhabitants for personal adornment comprise the store obtained by Putnam in exchange for his own collection of worthless articles. The representations of native life come from a section of Papua, a Dutch East Indian island hitherto unrepresented in the cases of the Museum...
...spoken; and we have reason to honor our Supreme Court. When this Court sustains the lower court in denying the motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, our first impulse is to take that decision as a final security that the alleged new evidence is worthless. But that impulse would be mistaken. For the Supreme Court has not denied the value of the new evidence...
...Knock it out of the lot, Eddie!" Cobb may have sneered. "That guy in the box is wholly worthless when considered from a pitching stand-point!" Umpire Wilson halted the game; approached the offending athlete with firm tread and livid countenance; ordered him off the premises. Cobb made leisurely preparations to comply with the arbiter's command. He walked slowly to the players' bench. He drew a glass of ice cold water; drank it with time out between sips for breathing and contemplation; carefully replaced the glass. He noted that one shoe lace seemed insecurely knotted. This situation...