Word: worthlessness
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...enjoined last week by the New York State Supreme Court from selling any more stock-market letters. The court ruled that as Goldsmith got his tips from the comic strips and departed spirits (instead of "recognized sources") and did not inform his clients of his sources, his letters were worthless...
...drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...
...what value is this department whose diagnoses, whether by medical skill or clinical fact, prove worthless? I should like to hear Dr. Bock explain away these charges as neatly as he now defends his department against all criticism--constructive or otherwise. Name Withheld by Request
...usually worthless trying to interpret an audience's reactions and using that interpretation as a criterion by which to judge the play. But last night, when roars of laughter greeted each stupid blunder made by the generals and the visiting congressmen, it leaves some doubt as to whether Mr. Haines has succeeded in making his point. Stupidity is laughable in chimney-sweeps and char-women, but it becomes something else when found among men with the whip in their hands...
...first day of the new currency issue, Shanghai merchants jacked prices up 20%. If they got away with that, other price rises would follow and the new currency might become as worthless as the old. Best sign that that would not happen was a flow of gold bars into the government's coffers as hoarders gave them up to purchase the new money...