Word: meaninglessness
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...with figures, and from "Man's Prime" [TIME, Sept. 10] I note that Psychologist Harvey C. Lehman has averaged it all up to conclude that "top performances" come "at a precise figure for the prime of life: 33." An interesting commentary on the psychologist's mania for meaningless statistics would be a brief listing of some outstanding "top performances" in the arts, i.e., actual masterpieces...
...allowed to tap telephone wires and did. On Dec. 5 agents overheard an "apparently meaningless and therefore highly suspicious" telephone message from a Japanese newspaper woman to Tokyo. The FBI passed the message on to Military Intelligence, which submitted it to General Short at 6 o'clock on Dec. 6. "As Short was unable to decipher the meaning," said the Board, "he did nothing about it and went on to a party...
Security in Secrecy? No matter how drastic a law Congress might pass to control the process, there was little security in attempted secrecy. That the U.S. could always produce more bombs than any other country was meaningless when 500 bombs would have as decisive an effect...
...policy which many a coal expert is now considering is just the opposite: make the life of the coal miner so pleasant, with plenty of food, clothing and a comfortable home, that he will have the energy and incentive to mine the coal needed. (High wages are almost meaningless in Germany today...
...last act. Here, deciding that she must fight against the social convention of the Victorian Era, Nora decides to leave her husband. But the emotional impact which the climax originally possessed has been entirely lost, as the script drags unwholesomely at that point. Too much time is lost in meaningless dialogue between Nora and her husband to retain any of the effect...