Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...word "uniform", it must be admitted, is something of a meaningless euphemism when applied to the combination of red sweaters, sailor hats, and the mixture of clean and soiled fiannel trousers which clothe Harvard's musicians, but there remains, nevertheless, considerable doubt as to whether any effort should be made to change this "uniform...
...event in the book-world. People who are already familiar with these unique sketches need only be told this inexpensive edition is well printed and that its seven hundred odd pages in some way have escaped from developing bulk--a rare feat. Others, to whom Saki is a meaningless word, can not hope to appreciate the importance of the occasion until they discover for themselves what Saki really means...
...sentiment of the Council that these regulations are not in the nature of meaningless restrictions, but are of value to both Freshmen and upperclassmen. It urges that members of 1934 accept these rules in the spirit in which they have been handed down by succeeding classes of Princeton...
...uninitiated much of modern painting and sculpture is grotesque and meaningless, but its significance cannot be lightly explained away as the effusions of a decadent and mildly insane school of Bohemians. The growth of all living art is caused by that outer fringe of radicals, who are trying to break away from the established order and create new and more expressive modes peculiar to themselves. It is true that a great many artists who belong to this borderland quest for the new and the strange are wild eyed romantics disregarding all discipline and moderation. There are also extremists...
...Moving Forward Grandfather Ford rules out mere money making as a ruling motive for New America's tycoons. Leave that to the little fellows! "Working just to get more money is out of the question. . . . There are two things of which men grow weary in the material sphere?meaningless poverty and meaningless prosperity...