Word: haplessness
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Pete Adams set a fast pace in the 500, lapped the Quakers' hapless Kurt Kendis, and led Bob Buster to a victory in a fast...
...millionth person to see someone off and won a free trip to Calcutta or Los Angeles. Poor guy chose you-know-what and plunged himself into an incredible chamber of horrors. Shortly after Barlow's arrival his British uncle, a failure in the movie industry, commits suicide, leaving the hapless boy to make all the funeral arrangements--and what funeral arrangements...
...they rattled off victories over Penn State (23-0), Illinois (22-12), Michigan (24-7), Ohio State (32-7), Purdue (14-10) and Northwestern (49-7). Going into last week's game with Iowa, the unbeaten Spartans were ranked No.1 in the U.S., needed only to beat the hapless (season's record: 1-6) Hawkeyes to assure themselves at least a tie for the Big Ten championship and, perhaps, a trip to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Halfback Clinton Jones ran for four touchdowns, Dwight Lee scampered 14 yds. for another, and Hawaii...
...fight. The play is a petrified forest of conflicting themes. It can be variously regarded as a study in revolutionary disillusionment, an attack on revolutionary fanaticism or a defense of revolutionary intransigence. Danton can be seen as victim or traitor, Robespierre as scourge or hero, or both as merely hapless puppets in the lock-step march of historical determinism...
Last week saw the front-runners vicarious in all the games they played. After a shaky start, Lowell's defense finally won and shut out hapless Dudley 8-0, and Winthrop 1-0. Kirkland stomped over Winthrop 3-2, and edged Dunster 2-0. Adams ran over Quincy 4-1, and Eliot stymied Leverett...