Word: hapless
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When the House was in its blueprint stages, the late President Lowell sat down with University architects Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, and Abbot, told them he wanted the windows built in the pattern they now occupy, and he left the hapless four to fit the rooms to the window design. This accounts for Lowell's small, irregular rooms...
PRINCETON, Feb. 26--Hapless is the word for the Varsity basketball team. Completely incapable of controlling either backboard, the Crimson took a 71 to 55 drubbing from a Princeton team that had everything its own way in the second half tonight...
...whether they rewrite English A themes for editorials three times a week, mix lemon juice in the photo developer, sell protection to hapless shopkeepers, or like the write summaries of squash tourneys, CRIMSON candidates all must go through a competition...
Speakaluminum. In the National Hardware Show in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace, buying pressure was so heavy that one hapless manufacturer of duralumin folding rulers rigged up a booth to resemble a speakeasy, barred the door to all but established customers. Despite this, his orders by the end of the second day amounted to 180,000, enough to keep his plant busy for 45 days...
Kirkland's eleven apparently picked up yesterday where it left off last year as it rolled to a 27 to 6 triumph over a hapless Lowell outfit. On an adjoining gridiron, Leverett opened its Strauss Trophy defense by whitewashing Winthrop...