Word: worthlessness
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...free inquiry" are in many quarters regarded as little more than cliches is evidence of this split status. The pressure is to conform, but it is only too plain that a Russian Research Center report slanted to fit the views of a particular political party is more than worthless-it becomes a positive danger. And when a natural scientist finds that his fitness is estimated by the degree of enthusiasm he shows for a project, the national interest will suffer from the enforced conformity of his fellow scientists in the future. In its more extreme form, this pressure shows itself...
...reduce last-minute deals, troops were confined to bases before the news was broadcast, sailors confined to their ships (some thought they were about to be sent to Indo-China). Black-marketeers everywhere were caught flat-footed with thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars worth of MPCs, which turned to worthless paper in their hands...
With no more equipment than a telephone, sharp Canadian stock promoters have fleeced gullible Americans of millions by palming off worthless oil and uranium shares at inflated prices. Until two years ago, the U.S. could do nothing to stop the practice, since most of the operations were conducted by phone from Canada, and the U.S. had no power to extradite Canadian citizens for such an offense. But in 1952 the two countries signed an extradition treaty to cover stock frauds. In Detroit last week, marking the first use of the treaty, a U.S. federal grand jury indicted two Montreal brokerage...
...persuasive salesmen, charged the grand jury, called likely prospects with phony reports of new oil and uranium strikes. A favorite trick was to quote a stock at one price, then lei a sucker buy it for less, pretending he was getting a tremendous bargain when actually the stock was worthless. One promoter made a sale by gasping over the phone that he had "just run in from the field" where a new well was brought...
...pronouncement of changes in next term's list of courses before preliminary Study Cards are due, students have no incentive to be especially discerning in their choices. Even if the Cards do give a slight indication of the enrollment size in old courses that will be given, they are worthless for the new courses. But the preliminary cards are most needed for new courses; past experience is a reliable index of the size of old ones...