Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This League of Nations is in itself contradictory nonsense and is absolutely worthless! The so-called 'League of Nations' is in reality only a concern composed of those nations who rushed at Germany in criminal onslaught like a band of highway robbers at a traveller...
...Vagabond sips his rhum at case. From an office in Time magazine he hears a voice. "Tutrinsically worthless," the voice says, "But you have to have it. It's like a necktie. Just a convention, a caste mark...
...this appeared last July in School & Society, written by Professor Walter Woodburn Hyde of the University of Pennsylvania, who observed that "such a history would be comparatively worthless outside of Turkey." Professor Hyde acknowledged he was indebted to History Professor Edgar Jacob Fisher, dean of Robert College in Constantinople, for translation. Last week, Dean Fisher lost...
Garr Fallson headed west for Prairie City and his career. He was making good money there, booming worthless real estate and running a crooked lottery until his partners, whom he had tried to cheat, exposed him. He moved on, established himself in Mineral City, and bought a moribund newspaper, The Chronicle. Garr took to yellow journalism like a rat to a sewer. By sensational news stories, circulation-forcing dodges, in a month he had quintupled the Chronicle's circulation. He tried to drive the competing paper off the streets by bribing or terrorizing the newsdealers. He reprinted every want...
...Discharged for incompetence, he gets drunk again the next night with better results. An advertising man who finds his conversation witty gives him a job. Presently Bruce Foster has a large suite of offices. He has mastered the technic of "fear copy," which he uses for the exploitation of worthless pastes and washes...