Word: worthlessness
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...free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk." If Texas women "are pretty, they're Mexicans. If they look like horses, they're Texans . . ." Texas cowboys can't even ride horses; on the last U.S. equestrian Olympic team, the "members...
There is no law which forces Harvard to take this attitude. It has done so in the past because it recognizes that education is worthless unless it involves decision-making as well as routine work. Schedule conflicts, squeeze plays, and inter-group disharmony are just the sort of problems that students can educate themselves by solving. If, whenever these problems afflict groups, the students run to Watson for mothering, the worth of a Harvard education must perforce decline...
...died in 1927, she inherited debts that ate up her personal fortune, forced her to move from sumptuous 846-acre "Mellody Farm" (now the site of Lake Forest Academy) to a modest Chicago flat, and left her with little more in the till than 400 shares of seemingly worthless stock in an oil-cracking company which her creditors wouldn't touch. Less than four years later, the oil-cracking rights were sold to Standard Oil of California and Shell Union in a deal that netted Mrs. Armour $8,216,058. She promptly moved back to the North Shore, invested...
...want domination, we must take all that goes with it, and that is complete dictatorship for all of us. We cannot continue to be a free European people. We cannot be free men ourselves if we want to enslave the rest of the population. Is democracy so vile, so worthless that we should throw it away because the Minister of Justice has difficulty with native agitators...
...exceptions, these companies have not had time to do any serious development work. Their properties are largely unknown . . . For every company that strikes it rich, literally dozens will fall by the wayside. And for every speculator who makes a fortune, thousands wind up with nothing but worthless stock." But that word of caution could scarcely impress a construction company clerk when the screen reported his stock at $2.45. "I got in at 8?," he said. "I'm just holding...