Word: despairing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will of God. The simple Godfearing people of Walcheren had no hard feelings against the British. They said that the Germans would have cut the dikes if the British had not. They accepted the trials of war as they accepted the trials of the sea. They did not despair. In the will of Providence rested ultimate good...
When heads of colleges are only 130 years in the lag of bright undergraduates, the world need not despair. To Sir William, the honor of this age; to Shelley, the honor of all ages...
...since his discharge from the Army, presents Loretta Young as a deaf New England mill-town patrician and Mr. Ladd as the doctor who works to cure her deafness. Her deafness is figurative as well as literal. In its literal aspect, being merely the result of meningitis and the despair of specialists the world over, it offers no insuperable difficulty. Figuratively, it is a more stubborn case...
...Before whom in all time surgery was agony. Since whom science has control of pain. It is almost needless to tell you that this man, whose contribution to human welfare is unparalleled in the history of the world, was himself ridiculed, burned in effigy, ruined, and eventually driven to despair and death by the beneficiaries of his revelation...
Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...