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Word: helplessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utility progress under a Labor ministry, Lord Birkenhead remarked: "The present ministry is for state ownership in the abstract. Yet this same government is helpless to take any steps in that direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Statesman in Industry | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

From here on it was merely a succession of passes, laterals, and runs by the first team, that had the helpless seconds completely bewildered. The Batch-elder-to-Mays lateral pass combination was good for two touchdowns, while White and Newhardt both tore off 50 yard runs for touchdowns, and Mason went over twice on end plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIRST ELEVEN RUNS THROUGH SCRUBS IN LONG SCRIMMAGE | 9/28/1929 | See Source »

...Just let any of our Boston women catch some man "swan upping" in our parks! ... Of course at Maidenhead I was helpless, except that my blood boiled. Shame on you, TIME, for not denouncing "swan upping"! MARY ELIZABETH ROBBIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 2, 1929 | 9/2/1929 | See Source »

...Whereas under prevailing economic conditions unorganized workers are commonly helpless, it is necessary that they have full freedom of trade union organization . . . for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Labor Is Free | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...other. But a winter's inactivity must have impaired his driving eye, for with a lurch and a slither the front wheel buried itself in the mud, and when the Vagabond got out to see the damage only a few grimy spokes emerged from the depth. Always helpless where mechanical resourcefulness is needed, the Vagabond made a few futile attempts at digging with a jack handle and then sat down on the running board to await in patience the arrival of a lift to the next town...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

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