Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lansing: "Humanity" is a relative expression when used with "war," but the whole tendency in the growth of international law in regard to warfare in the past 125 years has been to relieve non-combatants of needless suffering...
...invited occasions, and the means should be the ordinary inter-house slips. Last year's extra red tape of signing in advance in the Union, appropriate and Christmassy though it be, can be snipped, thereby not only ingratiating a thousand Freshmen, but also saving officials a lot of needless slip filing, book balancing, and general confusion...
...life of a pretty, ambitious manicurist, who, tired of being a working girl, decides to capture a rich husband, regardless of whether she loves him or not." And this is about what it is, though it's not particularly hilarious, nor very romantic. Silly would be a better word. Needless to say, she does not marry for money, but for love--you can see that coming the very beginning, particularly if you know this plot, which you almost certainly do. Yes, you've seen it all before, and it's not very well done this time. The variation here...
...Civil suits will be launched against one or more important holding companies as test cases. "It is . . . not the purpose of the Government to harass the utility industry with a needless multiplicity of suits," Attorney General Cummings instructed his local prosecutors. "Equally, however, there is no public interest to be served by vexing the Government with a multiplicity of injunction suits which . . . might result in the presentation of the issue of constitutionality on the basis of an inadequate record or a record not fairly typical of the situation covered...
...book like this has been long overdue. Needless to say, it is timely, for the Latin School celebrated its tercentenary last April, and a school which has 'the distinction and fame of being the oldest "free", public, non-endowed, non-sectarian secondary school with continuous existence in the United States is certainly worthy of attention as the ancestor in some degree of relationship of Groton as well as of the High School at Sauk Center, Minnesota. The qualifications which Miss Holmes makes are necessary because there are several claimants for the honor of being our oldest secondary school. She disposes...