Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significance. Depending on their sympathies, observers regarded the poll-priming furor as either: 1) the beginning of a hard-boiled Party purge which by 1940 might result in a serious Democratic schism; or 2) the pained but pointless howling of anti-New Dealers who, if driven into the wilderness, would have no other place...
...which give direction to most men's lives, sexual love, paternity, friendship, citizenship, religious aspirations, the desire for fame, the desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...
Stating that the murals are a strong incentive to the youth of Harvard to glorify war, F. Welch Peel '39, president of the organization, condemned the false patriotism behind them. "We feel that jingoism of this sort was mainly responsible for the pointless slaughter of American youth on foreign soil in the World War," Peel declared...
...just as pointless to have a navy insufficient for our needs as to have defective or antiquated fire equipment or inadequate police departments in every city or community." Admitting that a naval race would raise the rate on our naval "insurance," Captain Keppler said that the increase is only relative. He pointed out that naval expenditures are only a very small fraction of the national budget...
...regular issue throughout the decade 1894-1904. That 40 years back Sherman was thus licked by innumerable Southerners (without poisonous effect) and that his likeness underwent besmirchment at the hands of many a Southern postmaster makes the present sputtering of legislative bodies in South Carolina and Georgia seem pointless indeed...