Word: meaninglessness
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...Eliot's plays are remarkably like complex mathematical equations painted in vivid colors upon a canvas. Beautiful in conception and poetry, they are still quite meaningless if one cannot solve the formulas and reinterpret the symbols. A number of people laughed when members of the Institute for Advanced Study whispered that Eliot was writing Greek letters on the Institute's blackboards, during his year of residence there. Far from trying to emulate the physicists and logicians, Eliot was merely working his own kinds of unique mathematics; all of his plays fir the same two forms, the simultaneous equation of Greek...
...could be posted at suspected keyholes. But machines could be rigged to record every innocent conversation passing through every telephone exchange in the country. Such mass caves-dropping would have proportions great enough to render the freedom from search without a warrant, guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment, almost meaningless. And reproduction of these conversations in court can be regarded as a violation of the Fifth Amendment's prohibition against forcing a defendant to testify against himself...
...Deal's Brain-Truster David Cushman Coyle, has won support from conservative authorities such as the businessmen's Committee for Economic Development. Recently, Economist Beardsley Ruml, a Fair Dealer, added a new twist. The administrative budget, he argues, is made meaningless by one glaring fault: it overstates the Government's actual operating expenses by including each year an estimated $6 billion worth of items that are actually capital investments of lasting value which should be charged off over a period of years instead of being paid for all at once. They should be taken...
...Goodwin put the game away for Leverett with minutes remaining. Dudley's Red Wilde kicking in a meaningless goal late in the game...
...Kemal Pasha returned from his skillful but useless defense of Syria and asked for a job. "Get this man away-anywhere-quickly," the Sultan cried. The government hoped to save itself by submission to the conqueror; Kemal's unyielding patriotism endangered these schemes. So Mustafa got magnificent and meaningless titles-Inspector General of the Northern Area and Governor General of the Eastern Provinces-and was put aboard a leaky Black Sea steamer bound for Samsun, in remote Anatolia...