Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer states that "the question as it stands is meaningless, and there is no particular point in discussing it". The question is worded completely by the football star is, "that the Dartmouth is performing a function which is distasteful to the undergraduate body when it voices opinions obviously in conflict with that of the college at large, and should pursue a policy more in concurrence with the sentiment of the undergraduate body...
...conclude that millions of dollars appropriated by Congress during the past few years for this development program have been squandered in a purposeless, meaningless, endless experimental orgy. Surely it is not too much to expect that the millions spent should have purchased more than is in evidence in tangible results...
...minds: one superior, the other inferior, one to impress, the other to be impressed; one to stimulate, the other to respond. This response is education. Given all the rest, if the response be not forthcoming, then scholarly research, elaborate equipment, and the best system in the world are meaningless. There is no education. The one fault which in a professor constitutes an unpardonable sin is failure to interest the rank and file of sincere but uninspired students...
...Vanderbilt papers (in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami). "A section of the press of America has long lived and prospered by invading the rights of the individual with a ruthlessness that would do credit to a Hindenburg. By them that valuable guarantee 'Freedom of the Press' has become a meaningless hackneyed byword. To them, printing the amount of a man's income will probably mean no more than commercializing the sorrow of a murderer's mother or the innocent family of a prostitute." ? Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Proprietor...
...psalmist promised to the faithful freedom from both sunstroke and moonstroke. The meaning of the first of these is clear--especially in the hot climate where the psalm was written. But to most people at the present day the second promise is either meaningless, or a reminder of an ancient, and obsolete superstition that the shining of the moon on the face during sleep will cause insanity a superstition still preserved in our word lunatic...