Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...success in penetrating the impenetrable, Mr. Marsh attributes largely to ability to win the friendship of the native chiefs. In this case he obtained their trust by getting President Porras of Panama to send them speedy aid during a smallpox epidemic from which they were perishing in helpless isolation...
...Hello below ? Hey, down there?" The most peculiar conversation passed in the dark till the aviator landed on a 100-foot cliff, with scarcely a bump. When his plane came down in a crash it was immediately enveloped in flames. Crowds stood about in morbid curosity and horrified anxiety, helpless to extricate the man they thought buried beneath the wreckage, when Macready suddenly walked among them...
MIRAGE-Edgar Lee Masters-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). The story of a man who has a "genius for self-laceration." He has loved a woman who is unworthy of him; and though he realizes the utter "waste of the ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
...closer understanding and cooperation with the working multitudes, the Dartmouth Club performs a vital service. In such a combination the masses gain direction, expression, prestige--while the "intellectual" who casts his lot with them acquires the support, the dignity, the political effectiveness without which his own talents are helpless...
...attempting to teach economics to congregations, or attendance at church, we need no more. We have enough. If religion means the life of God in the soul of man (this is the real definition), then this is the crying need of America today. But the average preacher is helpless to satisfy...