Word: needlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Needless to say, a trip across the continent by the Nassau team merely in an attempt to seize an ephemeral sovereignty of the American gridiron could only serve to involve Princeton athletics in the much bandied accusation of "over-emphasis," a charge that has, fortunately, hitherto been given little or no excuse for being launched against the Orange and Black...
During the three years covered, 2,041 New York City mothers died in childbirth. More than one-half of them (1,343) need not have died. Were they women too ignorant or too poor to go to the doctor? No-only about one-third of the needless deaths were due to the failure of mothers to take advantage of professional care. Amazing fact introduced by the committee was that 61.1% of needless deaths were chargeable to the medical profession. "Some of these situations," thundered the report, "have arisen out of the fact that internes have been given too wide...
...magazine for future reference. Finally when my husband and mother-in-law were having their own race as to who was to get TIME first, I ... put my TIME-reading day over to the following Monday so they would have an even break to discover the perfect newsweekly. Needless to say the other two magazines mentioned came no more. . . . MRS. JOHN RODERICK PIERCE...
...When our friends pass from our sight and we lament, that lamentation is needless and causeless...
...Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie ("Dot King") Keenan, Broadway "sweetie," was murdered. For days he withheld from the Press the name of John Kearsley Mitchell, "Dot King's" benefactor, son-in-law of Morgan Partner Edward Townsend Stotes-bury, to save Mitchells family from "needless humiliation and suffering...