Word: worthlessness
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...Acceptance of a gospel under the stress of starvation is rarely genuine. Man must be free of worries, physical as well as mental, to be able to weigh the appeals of the foreign gospels and thus make a really voluntary choice. All other conversions are numerically valuable but spiritually worthless. Such material conversions can do nothing for the soul of the converts. The souls of Indian people can only be saved by education that is capable of revolutionizing her and feeding her sons and daughters with great enlightening truths that progressive Americans have inherited and discovered...
...dying wish of his old leader, Colonel Pillenger, by marrying Lucy Pillenger, his daughter. Lusy upsets this arrangement by a runaway marriage with a young curate, and the captain hurries off to find Lady Huntworth, who was forced to leave this vicarage when her identity was revealed by her worthless ex-husband...
...moments of stress, in great national crises. The Marseillaise grew out of an hysterical mob. The Star-Spangled Banner was inspired by the bursting of bombs by night. Most national anthems are old songs whose symbolic significance came to them later-almost unconsciously. Most of them are worthless as poetry. Many are not notable as music. Ireland, overlooking the psychology of patriotic song, has tried to get an anthem with the aid of a cash prize. Three judges, literary artists all (among them W. B. Yeats), acted as judges. Not one of the hundreds of anthems submitted was deemed worthy...
...enthusiastic response with which the formation of the new party has been received everywhere has led the committee to assert that intelligent people everywhere are beginning to see that all three of the candidates, Coolidge, Davis and La Follette, are equally to be rejected as incapable and worthless...
Although an investigation conducted by the Daily Princetonian last year in an effort to find the amount of money which business men in Princeton lost through cashing students' worthless checks revealed a considerable loss, Harvard students must be more honest according to figures obtained by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday from Harvard Square business men. Forgeries are practically unknown to most of the men interviewed...