Word: valueless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other hand, we cannot subscribe to your purely destructive criticism which would accuse us of underhanded motives and pass off the entire poll as valueless. The purposes of the poll are two-fold: to sound out student opinion on Harvard's attitude toward war and peace; to determine what agreement there is on the HSU program. If there is disagreement on those points there is simply no danger of our making a pretense of unanimity. The charge of a sinister attempt to pass off our opinion as that of the majority is unfounded and is certainly not proved by your...
...Japanese further argued Chinese currency should be declared valueless. But this-since it would be granting de facto recognition of Japan's ascendancy in North China-Sir Robert at first refused to do on the insistence of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Last week he reconsidered, then declared a recess while "awaiting further instruction" from London...
...been crammed with the answers. An acceptable thesis means nothing when the material has been organized or the whole paper has been written by a tutoring school. A course credit is no fitting reward when the recipient has not turned a hand to secure it. A diploma is a valueless trinket when the graduate has gone through college without once exercising his brain, without once garnering an honest grade...
Food. After the war-weary city had displayed white flags from the tallest buildings and the Franco troops had taken possession, 6,500 truckloads of food for half-starved inhabitants began to roll into Madrid. New Franco money (the old Loyalist paper money was declared valueless) arrived by carloads to be exchanged for pre-war currency. Direct train service between the capital and Saragossa was restored after nearly three years. Sandbags piled up in front of buildings on the Gran Via were removed, shutters were pulled up, temporary boarding was torn down. The rooms of hotels long considered unsafe because...
...duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only judge of the fairness of the utilities' offer, Mr. Willkie snapped: "Utility properties without a market are valueless except as junk. ... In effect, the Government holds a gun to the head of the utility and says 'Sell at our price or we duplicate.' . . . This is one of the most cruel, brutal, and unAmerican doctrines ever adopted...