Word: valueless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...retort, employers construed goodwill as a form of Property. When labor organizers disrupt the relations between workers and employers, are they not destroying goodwill? "The most important right is the right of use, for without use, property may be valueless," said Col. James Augustan Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers. "This bill would say to industry: 'You can protect your plants and your physical property, but you cannot protect the use thereof...
...Thompson has stated that all the works of Sargent and many of those of Whistler will son be valueless because of serious cracking or fading of the paints used by the artists...
...valueless paper currency coined by the war chiefs in pay for their troops, is forced upon the local people by each succeeding wave of arrivals. Theft and looting have closed or ruined the stores and business houses. Trade is impossible. The railroads have been declaring dividends only to the militarists; troops have been the chief traffic, while the stock has been abused or ruined...
...Charlot said that any act in revue, no matter how good the script is valueless without an actor whose personality will put it across. There are two kinds of shows, one that is played to a passive audience, and another that demands its hearers to meet it half way. The former type is passing, because it serves no purpose and has no effect on the audience, but give it idle pleasure...
...However, there is a place for all forms of activity in the world and even though our work in the field of aviation may seem somewhat elementary, we may be certain that it will not be valueless. As it now seems, we have succeeded in producting dirigibles that are durable, practicable, and economical...