Word: haplessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hapless Colgaters would have been ignominiously shut out 68 to 7 but for the early lead which Senior breaststroker Frank Ferguson piled up and was able to maintain despite the last-lap challenge of Jack Waldron of the Crimson. This gave them five points in that event instead of their customary one point and boosted their total four above the minimum of seven. The winning time was 2:38, Waldron being nosed out by only a touch...
...background of this ridiculous theme which makes the play interesting. The character of Lennie is developed in such a manner that he is not so much a hapless idiot as he is a well meaning child who has no idea of his own strength. Furthermore, the dialogue is lean and vivid, and the supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their...
Coach Johnny Wood of the Crimson Jayvee basketball team sent in substitute after substitute yesterday afternoon and still the scoring continued against the hapless Babson Institute quintet, the final result being...
...lighting flares by night, they drifted for three days. At nightfall of the third day the American Farmer came along, headed from London to New York with Captain H. A. Pedersen in command. Soon the lucky eight, like the crews of the Vestris, Antinoe, Florida, many another hapless vessel, were toasting their shins in a U. S. Liner's galley. Landing in Manhattan just in time to board the departing Cunarder Ausonia for Halifax, they got back home for a Christmas in which wide-awake U. S. seamanship played a far greater part than Santa Claus...
...teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan of 'you hire the daughter of the president of our school board and we'll hire the cousin of your superintendent's wife's friend.' " The American Federation of Teachers also investigated the case of hapless Harold Sivula, Gilbert high-school teacher. Mr. Sivula, when he arrived in Gilbert, went to board in a house recommended by the school-board president. His wife's baby was delivered by a doctor on the school board. Warned by a friend that he was trading at the wrong...