Word: meaninglessness
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...part to put up a vehicle of this kind." The achievement would be in terms of knowledge about "temperatures, radiation, ionization, pressures." To be sure, the Russian satellite meant possession "of a very powerful thrust in their rocketry, and that is important." But this, in current terms, was militarily meaningless: "I don't know anything about their accuracy, and until you know something about their accuracy, you know nothing at all about their usefulness in warfare." Even so, the President had deep regrets: "I wish we were further ahead and knew more as to accuracy and to the erosion...
...Vassar student also learns about "Fundies" (The Physical Education Department's attempt to correct Freshman protrusions"), a rather arbitrary though somewhat meaningless definition for Circle ("The symmetrical botanical garden located in front of Students"), and, most important of all, the reason for avoiding "Pro (academic):" "It means less overnights...
...South realized early in the civil rights battle that it had no chance whatever to block passage. The entire strategy was to get a bill weak to the point of being meaningless-and it failed even in that. The final vote spelled an end to the era in which Southern domination was the governing fact of the U.S. Senate...
...Meaning of Meaningless. At the same time, Secretary Dulles said that newsmen's passports will be validated only for seven months, "on an experimental basis," thereby putting the U.S. press on notice that it may stay in China on the sufferance of the State Department. During the probationary period, State Department officials explained, they will decide for themselves if Communist restrictions on news gathering make the experiment "meaningless...
There are two fragments of hope. A scientist named Jorgensen believes that radioactivity may be decreasing in the icefields of the arctic, holding out a promise of human survival in the polar regions. And a radio transmitter near Seattle has been intermittently sending a meaningless jumble of signals. Commander Towers takes his submarine north to get the answers. He proves Jorgensen wrong, and finds that the Seattle transmission is caused by a freak mechanical accident. He returns to Australia and death...