Word: meaninglessness
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...gave herself to Vincent Blatch. The experience was helpful, though it nearly resulted in misfortune. He didn't love her, really ? all she learned was that this was a crazy world. She wouldn't marry an acceptable parti. She moved to Greenwich Village and found it as meaningless and conventional as St. Pierre. Then she ran into Roger Leland, who kept a bookshop, and had known her when he was an adolescent and she was a child...
...Cabinet approved a most interesting diplomatic document?a "perpetual treaty of peace" with Turkey. It was explained by the Polish authorities that "perpetual treaty" is not regarded as a meaningless phrase in Poland. The reason for this statement is that Turkey, of all the nations of Europe, refused to acknowledge the annihilation of Poland at the time of the Third Partition (1795) and until the deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz (1876) the Polish Ambassador was always invited to the various ceremonies of the Turkish Court. During the 123 years in which the Polish State was nonexistent, Turkey was a warm...
...attack on the "attempt of extremists who style themselves Liberal with a capital L to exploit in their own interest the field of liberal thought." Doubtless this statement will be seized upon eagerly by a large section of the metropolitan press, but to the untutored reader it is meaningless without more specific illustrations...
Cotton declined sharply from recent high levels. In general, however, commodities continued to rise in price. Copper has recovered its recent slight recession on heavy London buy. So universal are premiums for early deliveries of steel products that prices for such deliveries are in practice rather meaningless. The Steel Corporation is operating at 92% of capacity. Railroad buying has slowed up, but so great is the demand that the only check to production lies in the shortage of common labor...
...Saturday Evening Pest", a single sheet anonymously printed, has announced its purpose to bring about a complete change in the undergraduate point of view: "We believe--that Yale is preparing men not to live, but to make a living--that the life of the undergraduate is stupid, empty, and meaningless". At the same time the communication columns of the more conservative "News" have been rife with criticism from all angles...