Word: meaninglessness
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...into play, "S. Osgood Smith." He buys Bethlehem Steel stock and some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with his radio. One program is interrupted by a ship's call, in which his daughter recognizes his initials?S.O.S...
...This is the plot of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' in two volumes, a work occasionally poignant, occasionally intense in its realism, often deadly dull, usually a monotonous narative of everything that happened in the course of Clyde Griffiths' short, worthless, and almost meaningless life...
...with sensitive apparatus in 70% of the experiments made. Men were said to be better receivers of transmitted thoughts than women. "The more accomplished a man is, the better he transmits and the worse he receives." It was not reported how the thought waves, when detected, were translated from meaningless physical effects into intelligible human ideas. U. S. scientists were skeptical...
...answer states that "the question as it stands is meaningless, and there is no particular point in discussing it". The question is worded completely by the football star is, "that the Dartmouth is performing a function which is distasteful to the undergraduate body when it voices opinions obviously in conflict with that of the college at large, and should pursue a policy more in concurrence with the sentiment of the undergraduate body...
...conclude that millions of dollars appropriated by Congress during the past few years for this development program have been squandered in a purposeless, meaningless, endless experimental orgy. Surely it is not too much to expect that the millions spent should have purchased more than is in evidence in tangible results...