Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hour later, by the dawn's early light, he was approaching the Hartford aerodrome, Brainard Airport, at the edge of the Connecticut River. He tipped the nose of his plane to the field, left his motor open. Two observers watched him, amazed that he was going into a needless power dive. Below him, in a little one-story observation shack, with a platform on the roof, should have been the night-watchman. Pridham dove his Pitcairn to zoom over it. The observers presumed that he intended to rouse the watchman with the snarl of his motor. He misjudged...
...Imperial New Year's Poetry Competition. The set theme for contestants this year was: Rocks at the Ocean's Fringe. Last week, before the tabulation of poems could begin, a choir intoned five times the Sub lime Emperor's own treatment of the theme, lines which, needless to say, will not be judged. With his royal brush the Son of Heaven had painted ideographs meaning: I muse on the strength of the rocks Enduring the ceaseless beating of the waves On the rugged shores. There was no more, for poems in the best Japanese classic style...
That the pack would open, that Admiral Byrd's worry was needless unexpectedly became a promise at the week's end. For the first time this season whales appeared at Little America, south of the pack. Some jigsaw passage they must have had. Admiral Byrd watched them frisking malodorously at the ice shelf, bunted one on the snout with a ski pole...
...tenth anniversary of Prohibition was observed yesterday by the wets and the drys in their routine manner. The drys claim that the country is dryer and better for the 18th Admendment; the wets pointed to needless deaths, plenty of drinking, and an abundance of corruption. The vast majority of people, taking an attitude lying somewhere between the extremists of the opposing factions, undoubtedly honored the anniversary with little more than a weary sigh of dissatisfaction with present conditions...
...exist in Buffalo, Boston, Philadelphia. So recommended Dr. James Ewing, Manhattan cancer specialist, last week. Those bureaus have clinical and pathological experts who review a cancer diagnosis before the surgeon operates or a radiologist burns away the excrescent tissues. Thus they can prevent many a useless operation, much needless suffering...