Word: worthlessness
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...Republican Frank Merriam's 1,138,000. Ham-and-Eggs, cooked up by a radio announcer and two admen, attracted wide public support (and several notorious scoundrels), forced a special referendum on its $3O-Every-Thursday proposal for California to pay off $1.5 billion in annual pensions with worthless scrip. It lost by a narrow margin...
Dreaming of a great university in the nation's capital, George Washington bequeathed fifty shares in the Potomac (Canal) Co. for just that purpose. The shares turned out to be worthless, and The George Washington University has yet to fulfill its patron's capital dream. But last week George Washington, after an 18-month culling of 130 candidates, picked a new president who yearns to do the job. He is Thomas Henry Carroll II, 46, vice president of the Ford Foundation, and holder of one of the most impressive resumes ever scrutinized by a college board of trustees...
...number of chemicals will kill cancer cells, but the vast majority destroy normal cells just as readily and are therefore worthless. One of the most ingenious ways to get around this has been devised by Dr. Robert D. Sullivan of Manhattan's VA Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The problem is that it may take days of continuous treatment to knock out all the rapidly reproducing cancer cells. In that time, the drug will kill so many normal cells that the patient's life may be threatened. Why not, asked Dr. Sullivan, give the drug continuously...
...last week agreed to turn loose British Somaliland as of July 1 so that it can unite with Somalia, the Italian-administered U.N. trusteeship territory which will achieve independence or the same date. Inhabited chiefly by goats and sheep, and with no major mineral resources, Somaliland is economically almost worthless and politically one of the most backward of all British territories. Local self-government was not attempted before 1953; in its first voting last year for 13 elective seats, authorities in one district could not find any tribesman willing to become a candidate. But to hold on to the colony...
...later, the state of Washington's supervisor of curriculum guides, John M. Howell, announced: "Now, of course, no one really believes the Darwinian theory ... If Darwinian evolution is true, then the Bible is untrue, and I prefer to hold by the Old Book rather than to accept a worthless theory...