Word: worthlessness
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...certain extent, but a quizzing of trivial details contributes little to one's education, while those broader essay subjects which evoke individual thought require more time. If some mid-semester's grade is necessary, then to submit term papers would be far more profitable than hour exams. Irksome and worthless, those relics of juvenile schooling ought long ago to have been relegated to the limbo of the birch...
...community of scholars, each pursuing his own interests, is completely misleading from the standpoint of undergraduate instruction. As a goal to be pursued in the research faculty and in the graduate schools it may be valuable, but as regards the teaching of college students it is completely worthless...
Documents were brought into court by the truckload. But the most staggering evidence the Government produced was its formula to prove that Corporation Securities' stock was worthless, when in 1931, after announcing a net income of $8,000,000 for the preceding year, it continued to pay dividends because "the defendants were at all times keeping up representations to the public that the company was sound and the stock a good buy." Burden of proof lay in two algebraic equations which the court found chalked on a blackboard one morning. The equations...
Many short features, worthless except for the newsreel, round out the program, and detract from the impression created by the feature. For the first time in many moons it was this reviewer's pleasure to hear an audience rise and cry out against one of those inane comedies that seem somehow always to amuse the girl behind...
...Kaplan, radiologist who supervises all the cancer work done in Manhattan's municipal hospitals: "We have ':ested over a hundred such claims in the I^ity Cancer Institute, not once but a number of times. They all proved to be absolutely worthless...