Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Horse Island. Among the 26 missing from the sealer Viking which sank after an explosion off Horse Island, N. F. last fortnight (TIME, Mar. 23) were a daring young film-maker named Varick Frissell of Manhattan and his photographer, Arthur G. Penrod. Forlorn though the hope that they might still be alive, Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell, last week persuaded famed Pilot Bernt Balchen to fly in search of them, in com-pany with his friend F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow. Through weather nearly impassable, Pilot Balchen pushed a Sikorsky amphibion as far as Corner Brook...
Finally H. R. 17054 automatically became the law of the land when the Senate with 14 votes to spare, overrode (76-to-17) the veto. Only one Democrat-King of Utah-joined the forlorn Republican opposition. President Hoover had suffered his most serious Congressional reversal...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...
...subject and it is the exception to find a bricklayer or mason who does not religiously observe the practice of frequent rest periods. As for the sympathetic audience perhaps the foreman could be drafted into the service and occasionally hold a confidential little tete-a-tete with the more forlorn workers under him. If Tony smashes his thumb under a sledge hammer the foreman could get him to talk about the wife and kiddies and thus get his mind off the injured member, or if Manuel should inadvertently fall asleep between rest periods the foreman should not try to awaken...
...hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity. No, no-never again...