Word: meaninglessness
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...during the next six months. Wherever there is time for him to train assistants, he will also conduct a demonstration of the Mass as it was performed in approximately 200 A.D. Such Dix demonstrations aim to make Communion meaningful to Christians for whom it has been a beautiful but meaningless fossil of antique forms...
Though the Crimson and Tech are the two top crews of the East, today's race will be completely meaningless. Both the Harvard and the Tech entries will be planned by oarsmen who rowed in the second or third boat or on freshmen crews last year...
...proposal appears meaningless in the light of the Selective Service regulation which requires a postponement of induction until the end of the academic term. The Council seems to have yielded to the hysteria of a few individuals in considering compulsory mid-term grades at this time...
Husing normally conducts a record program twice a day over a New York radio station. He is considered rather good at this. But his Wednesday night broadcast was peppered with meaningless and inane statements...
...fact that the U.S., in any given month, will probably continue to produce more atomic bombs than the U.S.S.R. As TIME said in August 1945, just after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima: "That the U.S. could always produce more bombs than any other country was meaningless when 500 bombs would have as decisive an effect as 50,000." Most military men are now convinced that the Russians may soon have a couple of hundred bombs. With such a supply they could destroy the centers of U.S. technical and industrial power, and thus take away, "for the duration...