Word: meaninglessness
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...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...knew anything about Wayne Morse's record for political consistency could have made an odds-on bet that his Democratic honeymoon would not last forever. Sure enough, he soon began feuding with Richard Neuberger. In 1957 Neuberger voted for a civil rights bill that Morse had dismissed as meaningless. Later, Neuberger committed the sin of sponsoring a trivial bill to turn over some public lands to the town of Roseburg, Ore.-without consulting Wayne Morse. That did it. Morse killed the bill, which required unanimous Senate consent. There followed a truly remarkable exchange of letters, begun by Neuberger...
Jumbles Made Sharp. The result was magical. Seismograph records that were hardly more than meaningless jumbles turned into clear, sharp records of distant earthquakes. When Dr. Sutton showed these records to a recent Washington meeting of seismologists, the contrast was so striking that the sophisticated audience burst into applause...
Still going strong, the varsity cuffed around a new Yale pitcher for two more runs, in the sixth. Martin's double, a walk to John Davis, and singles by Chet Boulris and Rodgers produced these essentially meaningless tallies...
...that the Class Marshal positions should be abolished. The CRIMSON argued: "As things stand at present, although one may regret the growth of the College into such a large, impersonal body, one can scarcely deny that the election of a symbolic leader for a Harvard Class is a rather meaningless proposition," and concluded: "Since the actual responsibility of the Marshals is quite small, and since the House system has changed the make-up of the "old Harvard" to a very considerable degree, it would seem best to remove the anachronism of Class Marshals in favor of a purely House-elected...