Word: meaninglessness
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Times have changed. Even in these days of unintelligent voting, it is doubtful whether Mr. Butler can "get away" with his hypocritical, sidestepping, meaningless liquor platform...
...incensed by the theory . . . that Germany had provoked the War. . . . He was appalled by the Treaty of Versailles. Particularly did he resent the paragraph which obliged Germany by force to admit that she was solely responsible for the War. He considered that paragraph both undignified and meaningless...
...Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose to be its chief engineer. Bald and bespectacled, he is a genial, easy-going engineer, never...
...letter from Board Chairman Walter Percy Chrysler. He told how the company has been expanded and rounded out since the Dodge Bros. Inc. acquisition two years ago, said it is in a better competitive position than ever before. Of the five points given to uphold this claim, most meaningless and general seemed Point No. 5: "A new basis of co-operation between management and employes . . . marks a distinct step forward in common sense industrial relations...
...propaganda-ingredient which is as inevitable in current Soviet films as the trademark of any commercial product, and of about the same artistic importance. Still, in spite of its faults, in spite of a photography sometimes just right and sometimes so overvividly alive that the images cluster into meaningless visual hurricanes or swirl away on independent sprees, Cain and Artem is not far behind the great Amkino products of the past. Best shot: the tug of war between two local strongmen, who, each tied to one end of a rope, stand on opposite houseroofs and try to pull each other...