Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country play up the slightest innovation at New Haven and Princeton, while what the men of Cambridge are wearing is neither interesting nor original. And who can wonder at this, when a hundred odd undergraduates, representing a cross-section of the University, chose such a dilapidated and absolutely worthless hat as rests upon its plush cushion in Boston as the Master Hat of Harvard, the result of a recent publicity stunt of a local humorous publication? The layman of the street, and his wife, stare at the apparition in its pose of state, and with a burst of derisive laughter...
That the system of advising Freshmen as to the fields of concentration has long been notoriously inadequate and practically worthless is a fact too well known to the freshman deans upperclassmen, and seniors especially, who were attempting to pick their field in the spring of their freshman year. In spite of the fact that each year complaints are made of the uselessness of the Freshman Advisers, the incoming Freshman hears nothing of the matter, and innocently trots about the Yard and the House seeking appointments with strange tutors, who will repeat the same message to each man on the glories...
...were no more to salvage he made the supreme sacrifice of trying to get a job in a mill. But he was just as pleased when there were no jobs to be had: he would rather have starved in the scrub than eat heartily in a town. Meantime his worthless cousin Cleve had married Kezzy, who would much rather have married Lant, but he would never look her way. Instead he courted a little doll from across the river, saw through her just in time. When there was no other way out, Lant took to moonshining, and was making...
...accurate and at times interesting, and that during the last fifty pages, when Talleyrand and Mr. Cooper are relieved of the political onus, the pictures and phrasing acquire a new freshness. But to all save the most causal reader, this latest plunge into the mystery of Talleyrand is worthless; considered as an historical document, it offers practically nothing save a superficial rehash of secondary material; considered as biography, it loses all effectiveness in the morass of inexperience and slipshed, dull expression...
...order to buy debentures in an Insull holding company, then a letter to Halsey, Stuart asking: "For God's sake, is there any issue that Halsey, Stuart sold me that is not going into default?" Snapped Banker Stuart: "You are creating the impression that we sold nothing but worthless securities. We did sell some bad ones, like every other company, but the percentage was small. We are very proud of our record." Banker Stuart suggested that complete financial details should be given in offering circulars, and that utility commissions should sell utility securities at public auction. Remarked worldly-wise...