Word: meaninglessness
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...Hiroshima and Nagasaki. At about 1,800 feet above ground (Japanese figure), it turned into a blue-white ball of energy as bright as a thousand suns. Its initial temperature, if known, has not been told. (The figure, reading in millions or hundreds of millions of degrees, would be meaningless except to physicists...
...biggest, most meaningless election on earth. From Archangel to Erivan, from Kënigsberg to the Kurils, almost 100 million citizens of great Russia voted this week in their first national election in eight years...
...Wells's The Shape of Things to Come. In the machine-minded U.S., he burgeoned as an industrial designer. Among his designs: "air" curtains which send jets of air from the ceiling to keep out drafts; wrap-around tables to minimize reaching for food; and a meaningless "machine of emotional discharge," which he designed for laughs...
...dollars, within a time limit fixed by the Fund, and cannot later revise the value more than 10% upward or downward without the approval of the Fund. France, by devaluing the franc, has come close to a realistic value. In many another country official valuations are nearly meaningless. Poland, which has hopefully signed the Fund agreement, still keeps an official value of 19? on the zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece's official value of about 500 drachmas to the dollar is far below the black-market price, which...
...regards "socialized medicine" as a meaningless, if inflammatory, generality, "If he means state medicine," he declared, "we've got that already. What else can you consider federal, state, and local public health authorities and clinics...