Word: meaninglessness
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...must cover in one hour an amount of material almost as great as that which later requires three, with the result that they neglect important portions of the semester's work or force too many questions into a short sixty minutes. In either case the resulting grades may be meaningless, and in either an injustice is done. This is a month when many men are preparing course theses, and to distract and divide their attention is to defeat the purpose of the new educational trend...
...overweighted by an impulsive admiration for the tales of Tchehov." To his much-maligned friend Hugh Walpole he gives the Swinnertonian accolade of "professional novelist." Bertrand Russell's cold logic irritates Swinnerton who says: "The suggestion that a man may know everything and understand nothing would be meaningless to him." To D. H. Lawrence, "a sort of latter-day Carlyle rather than a latter-day Blake," he doffs his hat: "Let there be no mistake, however: in a hundred years he will probably still be on the literary map, while I, and those like me, will have sunk without...
Three short years ago the formula D20 would have been meaningless to chemists because there was no element corresponding to the symbol D. Now every chemist in the land knows that D2O means heavy water, that D is the symbol for the heavy isotope of hydrogen which Dr. Urey identified in the autumn of 1931 (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) and subsequently named deuterium. Undoubtedly in considering last week's award the Swedish Academy took cognizance of the fact that no discovery in the physical sciences in recent years has stimulated more widespread research than...
...against William Howard Taft. Naively he invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went on to abuse the Press, completely lost his head and launched into a meaningless tirade. Practically suffering a nervous breakdown, he repeated whole passages of his speech. After he had spoken for an hour and a half, his audience walked out on him. He continued his ravings for nearly an hour before collapsing. That one evening's illness killed his chances for the nomination...
...there is Hiram Johnson tagging along with Him. Everywhere the fiery G. O. P. denouncing the Democrats' and handouts, to the voters, has seen its rally crowds going out to find the Democrats, and has had to soft-pedal. Perhaps no campaign has ever been so confused, so completely meaningless...