Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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There is a notion, only too common, that this work is intelligent and kindly care of persons who are chiefly helpless and hopeless. But that is an entire misunderstanding of its scope and possibilities. It is not merely care of needy persons. It looks largely to remedy and prevention. It means the use of scientific methods by the forces of charity, neighborliness, civic responsibility. It involves statesmanship in aim and method. Such conceptions of social work should appeal to young men and women of ability...
...accurate. Dr. Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as mater-mariner, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression and the drink evil, which find peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk. He has recently been made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward VII for his heroic missionary work. Dr. Grenfell has already shown himself well fitted to treat his material from the point of interest to college...
...population. Dr. Grenfell is a surgeon, a mariner, a magistrate, an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance, a manager of a string of co-operative stores, and an active opponent of the fraud, the oppression, and the drink evil which finds peculiarly helpless victims among the fisher-folk...
...captive Trojan priestess, Cassandra, in his train, and if the queen is guilty, her lord is not free from blame. The most dramatic scene of the play is that in which Cassandra before the palace doors vividly foresees the fate that awaits both herself and Agamemnon within. She is helpless, however, to avert the terrible tragedy. After she enters the doors, the death cries of the king are heard from within, and the masterful queen is seen exulting over the two murdered bodies. She then quiets Aegisthus, whom she saves from the Argives...
Yale defeated Columbia at New York on Saturday by a score of 34 to 0, in a game in which Columbia was completely outclassed. After Metzenthin's run of 70 yards on the first kick-off, Yale's goal was never threatened. Columbia was helpless against Yale's powerful rushes through the line, and was unable to gain except on trick plays. Hoyt played a strong game for Yale, both in punting and in carrying the ball, while Metzenthin excelled for Columbia...