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Word: despairing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well advised, was on his way to Minneapolis to make.a speech on the farm problem before 12,000 people-and a national radio audience. Of the farm problem he made no mention, but his speech was a bull's-eye. Failure to give the people jobs, economic despair, defeatism-with these Mr. Dewey debited the New Deal, averred that business abuses can be cured without creating Government abuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Hare & Tortoise | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...portrayals of Utopia; [in] slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent actions against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair." And in Europe's dictatorships "those desperate people willingly surrendered every liberty to some man or group of men who promised economic security, moral regeneration, discipline and hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Nazism and Communism were attributed to the spread of despair following the World War in a talk by the Reverend, Martin J. D'Arey on "Modern ideals," given before the St. Paul's Catholie Club last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D'ARCY TALKS TO CATHOLICS | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...friend of Dr. Ralph Robertson Mellon in Pittsburgh lay dying from blood poisoning caused by streptococcus. In despair, Dr. Mellon gave him a dose of prontosil (sulfanilamide), a German drug never before tried on human beings in the U. S. To his joy, the dying man made a rapid recovery. That was three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Staphylococcus Conquered? | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...story is enough to make a mystery fan throw up his hands in abject despair. It concerns a psychic convict fresh from taking the tap for a rich, buccaueering and, of all things, the rich man's murder. There's a nifty bit of Rube Goldbergiana concerning the firing of a pistol, but otherwise the film ends with very little clarification of anything save the fact that Nick Charles leads a very merry married life. However, the conversation sparkles at frequent intervals and Myrna Loy wears a negligee now and then for a man's money this is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/1/1939 | See Source »

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