Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thus far. The U. S. position was sufficiently set forth by General Lassiter in his speech to the plebiscitary commission, released at Washington last week: "Flagrant as have been the outrages to which Peruvian electors and sympathizers have been subjected and pitiful as have been the sufferings of the helpless victims it it not these outrages themselves that in my opinion have constituted the most serious phase of the long continued course of violence, oppression, persecution and discrimination that "has marked the past year in this territory...
...fuel oil any other 660-ton ship would have required without rotors. The rotors were at their best lending power auxiliary to the thrust of the motor-driven propeller, and in high winds off Gibraltar that had given the craft full headway when its motors were helpless. Herr Flettner told also of motor-driven water-pumps, lighting plants and even airships of the future...
...TIME entered the market with a new sophistication process? I refer to the recent Quiz section. Or have the Editors carried over collegiate quiz-taking habits and now wish to paternalize their helpless readers? There are too many vital and pertinent items of news interest for your able but caustic causerie to permit a column and more for the self-improvement guild. Most of us are delighted and edified by the rest of your scintillating columns. We deplore such an unnecessary attempt to dictate a more careful reading. Has not TIME an audience sufficiently alert and curious and discriminating...
...papers of March 17 carry the proposal of the Secretary of Labor to mediate between each employer and his own workers. The operators have accepted of course. And why not? Some years ago their workers struck and received all their demands except recognition of their union. Within a year, helpless without a union, all their gains had been taken from them. The employers are united in a local council and operate a joint employment office. There are no valid reasons on which to oppose concerted action by their employees...
...Pacific, the tanker Java Arrow picked up 14 men from the helpless and drifting Japanese steamer Taishin Maru No. 3; flashed the message ashore: "Men uneat last 20 days, no water last five. Caught rats, made soup. Later caught no more rats; crew...