Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
That the AAA program is not "a program", but a mass of conflicting ideas at war with other equally unharmonious branches of the government is well known. But Garet Garrett's surprisingly objective account of its complexities, in these days of political and meaningless rhetoric, is much needed. Once there is compulsion to limit production and raise prices "there is a kind of progression to it" until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed...
...such as copper mines, fishing fleets, sporting houses. His supporters were organized as the Forgotten Men, sang a goofy campaign song ("Buzz and buzz"), beat up Reds, Jeffersonians, innocent bystanders, lumping them together as the Antibuzz. His program, based on sharing the wealth, was as emphatic as it was meaningless. He claimed to be just a plain, simple, common man. He told bad jokes. He was elected...
...largely as a dealer in Governments, municipals, high-grade corporate bonds, bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue was placed last week without the aid of dealers or a banking group. Moreover when the partners assembled in their private paneled dining room at No. 60 Wall...
...intelligent leading questions. Although he tells little of his personal life, Detective Parker began trapping criminals because of his anger when his horse & buggy were stolen. Believing that people in times of stress act according to a few readily recognizable patterns, he was seldom led astray by strange but meaningless combinations of circumstances developed after a deed of violence. Some cases...