Word: useless
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...called a safeguard, but it doesn't guard and it isn't safe-and it is useless and expensive," Joseph S. Clark '23, former Senator from Pennsylvania, said at a symposium last night at Sander's Theatre...
...These could raise the price of the average new car by 10% or more -but that is not the most immediate problem. The key antipollution device is the "catalytic converter" that burns up hydrocarbons in the exhaust. The trouble is that the converter is eventually gummed up and rendered useless by the tetraethyl lead in present-day gasolines...
...South Africa, for example, a campaign was waged against hippopotamuses. Deemed useless beasts that merely cluttered up rivers, they were shot on sight. Result: the debilitating disease called schistosomiasis has become as great a public-health hazard in certain areas as malaria was 50 years ago. As usual, the missing links in the chain of events were discovered the hard way. It turns out that hippos keep river silt...
When the late Harvard Undergraduate Council took office last March, we had no money, no facilities to communicate with the student body or the Faculty. That rendered our position during the crisis of last Spring next to useless when as a student representative organization we should have assumed a meaningful role, interpreting the issues which concerned the Harvard community. Since the incidents of last Spring, the treasurer of the H. U. C., Peter Bernbaum, and I began an extensive program to raise funds in order to establish some semblance of student representation at Harvard College...
...termed) student representative organizations and as one who framed the proposals which will appear before the student body on registration day, I would like to make my position clear. If the student body votes to establish the new council but not fund it, it will render the new Council useless. In effect, the student body will be setting up an organization which, while it will represent important points of view, will not have the facilities to communicate with its constituency...