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Word: useless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether the article is synthetic or real, however, makes no difference to the canvasser, but paper and tin cans are not wanted. Old paper is useless, and no facilities have been arranged to take care of the tin cans. The University has made an agreement with local bottling companies whereby all its tin is being turned into bottle caps. Before the government will accept old tin cans the donators must have them pressed into solid packs to facilitate shipment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Room to Room Canvass Will Launch Drive to Save Scrap | 8/26/1942 | See Source »

Morale is quite good-always seems to improve in proportion to the nearness of actual danger. U.S. soldiers stand up very well under almost constant bombings. It would be useless to pretend all are heroes. But after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride in one anti-aircraft unit. Last week it shot down five bombers. An American colonel commanding the Moresby anti-aircraft unit was so pleased he gave five pounds donation towards beer for the anti-aircraftsmen-when & if beer arrives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yanks in New Guinea | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

Cracked from four sides and the air above them, the Hurs sought to hide by ducking under water and breathing through straws. Their ancient blunderbusses, hatchets and spears proved virtually useless. Even their jungle allies, 120° heat, snakes, mosquitoes and crocodiles, claimed few casualties. One parachutist sprained his ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Practice | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Making for Archangel (Murmansk has been bombed useless), the convoy was churning toward the Barents Sea. Off North Cape it ran into trouble. For several days all that was known of the encounter was the Berlin radio's growing claims, first that nine, later that 32 out of 38 ships had been sunk, with an escorting U.S. cruiser tossed in for good measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF SUPPLY: On the Prowl | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...Burmese job Forster kept just ahead of the enemy. Under his direction, 20,000,000 lb. of machinery were blown into scrap, 600 oil wells became useless and generators, transformers and instrument panels were sledge-hammered into pulp. Sir Reginald called Engineer Forster "the greatest saboteur in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Greatest Saboteur | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

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