Word: meaninglessness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...collective bargaining. I stand for minimum wages and maximum hours, and for legislation to enforce them. I stand for social-security benefits and believe that they should be extended to other groups. . . " But over & over Wendell Willkie insisted: "That is not enough-that is not enough." Collective bargaining was meaningless to a man with no job to bargain with; minimum wages meant nothing to the man on relief; social-security benefits were endangered in view of future financial crises; the only real remedy was an administration that would encourage business to launch the enterprises that would make more jobs...
...avoid this meaning future we are willing to go far in helping England to win this war. Our national policy today may be summed up as "all aid to England short of war." Yet this is a meaningless slogan, because "aid" can merge imperceptibly into "war." Many of us opposed helping England in the belief that once you set foot on that dangerous path there is no turning back. Already we have progressed from planes and guns to destroyers. Next will be army planes, then the repeal of the embargo on loans to belligerents, then the lifting...
Industrial v. Craft? No. A. F. of L has 29 semi-industrial unions and 19 trade unions. C. I. O. has six semi-industrial and four trade unions. The jurisdictional fight that brought about the split has become meaningless...
...professors will lecture on "Virgil and the Present World Crisis," chemists and physicists on "Science and the War," and so on; even the most remote of the ivory-tower dwellers will indulge in a daily, dish of "realism." Insofar as educators give up their customary profound preoccupation with the meaningless and esoteric, such a change can only be accounted a gain. The quest for knowledge, as Robert S. Lynd asserted in "Knowledge for What?", ought to be motivated by some social need, which stimulates an action toward its solution, and in turn encourages the acquisition of knowledge as a guide...
...open country instead of a blind alley. . . . Our creed was not based on antagonism to any other people. It was humanitarian and international; we believed that we were laying the basis of a federation of the world. . . . The 'white man's burden' is now an almost meaningless phrase; then it involved a new philosophy of politics, and an ethical standard, serious and surely not ignoble...