Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Among the forces that held this incongruous mass together, no inconsiderable part was played by the forces from without that rushed them together under the meaningless formula 'Bolshevik.' The agitators have generally shown more cleverness in making use of this apparent solidarity than the forces of law and order have in depending upon the very real lack of solidarity that a bit of analysis might readily reveal...
...members of a losing football team or baseball team should not be awarded their letters? Is his criterion of merit not sincere effort, but accidental result? Would he give recognition only to those who are favored by chance, and stamp out of existence those who are less fortunate? His meaningless allusion to Prussianism might easily be made a boomerang...
...overseas and at home. This work has involved no end of courage and sacrifice. Time and again a soldier has mentioned in his letter in glowing words of praise the work of the various charitable organizations which have done their utmost to make war less of a dreary and meaningless existence and more like the life at home...
Being the instigator and chief promoter of this insidious attempt to divert the columns of the CRIMSON to a meaningless and purposeless discussion of education, I suppose it is now my office to make some sort of apology for its brief and miserable life...
...occurrence which is not uncommon, but which is quite characteristic of the American student. The professor is completing his lecture. Immediately there arises a noise of shuffling feet, of closing note-books, and of clattering tablets as each student prepares to leave the hall. The closing words are a meaningless jumble lost in the general disorder. The students rush out; the professor resignedly gathers up his notes and joins the crowded mass at the door...