Word: worthlessness
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...commendable that straw-hat theatres are investigating the possibilities of off-Broadway drama in real off-Broadway settings, but until they ignore such worthless items as "The Two-Headed Baby" and learn to discriminate wheat from chaff, they will only be doing great disservice to a medium they want to foster...
...book's sales to more than a million copies in less than a year. Last week, in commenting on a default decree, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration blasted the volume as full of false ideas, charged that it had been written and promoted to boost the sales of worthless capsules of safflower...
Said FDA Commissioner George P. Larrick: "This bestselling book was deliberately created and used to promote these worthless safflower oil capsules for the treatment of obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other serious conditions. One of its main purposes was to promote the sale of a commercial product in which Dr. Taller had a financial interest." To this, Simon & Schuster retorted: "There is nothing in the record which could possibly support these vicious and irresponsible innuendoes...
...though he stood alone and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure; that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail...
...brought forth a system, and a standing profitably survey the area. If a committee were created, it would probably include many members of the language departments who now the responsibility for the low instruction given in so many modern languages. This instruction helps make the language requirement worthless...