Word: worthlessness
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...were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...
...govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind of free press that Mussolini enjoys. When a newspaper offended him he confiscated its owners' property, paid for it in worthless bonds. His laws were few but so sternly administered that crime became practically unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England's freedom from crime today is largely due to that wise period when you hanged a man for stealing a loaf of bread." He made all farms taxfree, prohibited all forms...
...common experience of producers that where offers of increased compensation are made to stars during their present employment, their services become practically worthless to their employers unless their salaries are increased to accord with the competing offer...
...portfolio were nearly 400,000 shares of worthless stock. But he had 14 blocks of stock each with a value of more than $1,000,000. In these 14 he had invested $35,000,000, principally in Guaranty Trust Co. ($6,918,000), Western Union ($4,456,000), Standard Oil of New Jersey ($3,590,000), National Cash Register ($2,762,000). Standard Oil of California ($2,530,000). Miscellaneous holdings : one share of Newport Reading Room common ($400) ; one share of Pocahontas Following Club...
...writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost $3,500,000. He was paroled after a few months...