Word: fruitless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most of these nations have tried silver as a monetary standard and do not want to try it again. Moreover the political economists are everywhere agreed that gold is the only metal on which to base a monetary system. If we need an increase in the amount of money...
...Science," by Edward C. Lunt, A. M., Harvard, is a concise systematic discussion of the prevalent opposition to the classic school of economics. It points out with clearness the causes for the dissatisfaction many feel with the methods and aims of the English school in the main, and seemingly fruitless discussions of economics today, and the mistakes made by economists in the past. A concise statement of the English method is made and the criticisms on it given. The new schoolmen find its faults to be in the fact that it is too reductive and too absolute. They hold that...
...Directors must proceed to the extreme measures which lie in their power. It is safe to say that the greater part of the members would uphold the Directors; but we hope that an appeal to the gentlemanly feelings of those who have been to blame will not be fruitless. It is certainly not a thing for congratulation that the disorder among the students should be noticed and remarked upon by visitors in the gallery...
...injures the reputation of the college. One article about the depravity of college life will have more effect and will sink deeper into the minds of the mass of people than any number of pieces to the contrary. All protestations of innocence, when coming from a college man, are fruitless. The public is determined to misjudge us. The term "Harvard man" is considered by many to be a synonym for contemptible lethargy-a man whose nominal residence is Cambridge, but who spends his time at Parker's or Young's. He is a man who is useful only in showing...
...made him no offer when, having agreed on terms with Mr. Hare, I sent word to Mr. Allen Oct. 7 from Albany as I now remember, that I could not play him after all, regretting our fruitless correspondence...