Word: meaninglessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solved the troublesome triangle with a simple formula: pay-as-you-see. His company's scientists, he said, had perfected a method of peeling several key frequencies off the television band, channeling them through telephone wires. Without these essential frequencies, the telecast is received as a meaningless blur...
...before and after they were built. Memorial Hall, built in 1870 as a Civil War memorial was used for many years as a 1000-man dining hall, but its idealistic purpose was soon forgotten. For the last thirty-five years it has been a comparatively useless, as well as meaningless, Harvard landmark...
...Hollywood's latest wrinkles is the practice of slapping together dozens of new producing units to operate under the guise of independent companies, mainly as a tax reduction scheme. One of these post-war babies is an outfit going under the rather meaningless title of Nero Films, and their first effort is now on the market, to no one's particular advantage. Obviously, these gentlemen have seen a picture called "Notorious" a couple of times, and have consequently attempted a watered-down version of the Hitchcock formula...
Certainly your description of the State Department's new home as being "as elegantly modern as a Radio City men's room" [TIME, Feb. 17] is meaningless to women readers...
...problem play in the Scribe tradition, Arthur Laurents' "Heartsong" has neither a biting social problem nor a pat formula to rescue it from a morass of meaningless talk and contrived situations. Susan Douglas, as Ivy, the eternal sex force, is Mr. Laurent's champion of illegitimacy. Although she was the only character who seemed to have something relevant to say, Miss Douglas was as uncomfortable in her part as everyone else last night...