Word: meaninglessness
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...still chewing the cud of the Lincoln Day speeches. They were not uninspiring rhetorical hearkenings-back to the glories of a dead past. Dr. Glenn Frank and Senator Van-denburg gave no ordinary speeches on this occasion. But above all former President Hoover's fighting speech was anything but meaningless oratory...
...activity considered in physics is the emotional intensity entertained in life." Which, bless my soul, is an exceeding fine idea for it doth relate the activities of life and nature into the creative reality; and doth make us and our experiences an integral part of the whole. But this meaningless to those who know not philosophy...
...which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many of the round billion dollars already collected as processing taxes might have to be refunded, the President's $49,000,000 budgeted for tax refunds was a meaningless figure...
Babies, she believed, might accomplish much musically if the pattern of the conventional piano keyboard were not meaningless to them. A child begins to discriminate between forms at from 18 to 24 months. Color discrimination comes a little later. Therefore, suggested Dr. McGraw, let piano manufacturers design a keyboard of which each key bears its own circle, square, triangle or little animal, perhaps also its own color...
That the AAA program is not "a program", but a mass of conflicting ideas at war with other equally unharmonious branches of the government is well known. But Garet Garrett's surprisingly objective account of its complexities, in these days of political and meaningless rhetoric, is much needed. Once there is compulsion to limit production and raise prices "there is a kind of progression to it" until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed...