Word: meaninglessness
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...matters concerning debts, loans, property, treaties, etc., are to await discussion by conference of the two parties. Hence recognition follows the same formula as that laid down by Premier MacDonald last spring when he extended a virtually meaningless recognition to the Moscow autocrats (TIME...
...declared that his, belief in the existence of God was based entirely on his moral sense. Declaring that the word "ought" represented not a personal principle or law, but "the ultimate-fact of human life", Professor Lewis described God as the moral force without which all life would be meaningless and futile...
...Moslem faith. But, under the surface, Islam was being moved by mighty forces. Who could say whence they would come, whither they would go? A Pan-Islamic Conference was planned to discuss and settle the question of the succession. It was clear that Husein's title was meaningless to the mass of Moslems...
...only candidate who is thoroughly at home before a camera. His face does not sink into flabby, meaningless lines. When he steps before the camera he becomes an actor. It is hardly too much to say that he is the only first rate camera-actor in politics...
...held a strong brief for the League. "It is," he said, "the centre and rallying point of all peaceful forces." Over the question of the Court the leaders of the Conference disagreed. Dr. J. W. Garner asserted that without such a Court and a definite codification, international law was meaningless. Dr. Quincy Wright had a different opinion. "The time is not ripe," he said, "for a codification of international law." Dr. Kraus supported Dr. Wright. There was, however, no debate. Members of the Institute do not argue. They merely fail to agree...