Word: despairs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cambridge post-office officials in despair yesterday took University Hall into their confidence. For a week now they have been thumbing directories of the Alumni, telephone books, the city tax lists, and the University Catalogue in an effort to discover the residence of a Mr. John Harvard who lives in Cambridge, Mass., according to a post card received here...
...metal trades have proved intractable. Creatures whom Il Duce considers "socalled business men" have exceeded metal quotas approved by the State in speculative efforts to cut each other's throats. The silk trade, on the other hand, reached a pass of despair last year in which honest worm raisers began to burn their mulberry trees. The State stopped that with a bounty of one lira per kilogram of cocoons, but the silk, metal and several other trades must be thoroughly overhauled. Such jobs take money. Hence last week the $50,000,000 loan...
...condition rather than the disposition of the U. S. Fleet that makes Big-Navy men wring their hands in despair. Again & again has Secretary of the Navy Adams complained of "our already seriously impaired position relative to other signatories to the naval treaties." Fortnight ago the Navy Department reported to the Senate that 135 ships would have to be built in less than four years to bring the U. S. up to treaty limits. Last week Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced preparation of a naval building bill which would require $600,000,000 in ten years...
Sadly puzzled for the past three months to ascertain what the shooting was about, I had given up in despair, when my copy of TIME came to the desk...
...Hindenburg," concluded General Litzmann, "it is a question of escaping a curse which history may lay upon him- the curse, Meine Herren, of having driven the German people to despair and delivered Germany to Bolshevism...