Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there ever was a time when the insecurity of an education based upon success in the preceding generation was apparent, it is now. Children educated in pre-war Russia upon such a scheme would be, and are, helpless in revolutionary Russia. The only education which could conceivably be valuable in a period of violent change would be an education which enabled the individual to so far free himself from the immediate prospect as to orient himself and measure tendencies and probabilities. To train for nothing but success in the present business world is to invite intellectual bankruptcy. There were...
...must depend on his legs spindly things at best, on which the Bird is not accustomed to stand. As for the Ink-Pot, he is very much afraid of an overflow of slush, which would cause him to become full; and that generally renders him rather helpless. While he is perfectly competent to slide across the smooth surface of good ice, an Ink-Pot is not adapted to navigation through fields of muck and is always handicapped when it gets into the devious paths the Bird frequents...
Against such a display of arbitration mere mortals are helpless. The only resource left is an attempt at imagining oneself in the outfit decreed. "Peg-top" trousers and sport coats, Norfolk predominating, with "novelty" effects for street wear, and as capstone and keynote of the whole "a low, flat, derby hat with a small feather, preferably red or grey, tucked neatly on the left side"; and man is complete in all his glory. If the new styles find ready acceptance perhaps it would be well to garb even tender freshmen in somber caps and gowns...
Instances like this of the cable-coil call up the vision of a new Frankenstein. The terror of the men on board the ship, helpless before the caprices of the huge drum, can be readily imagined even by those who have not read "Quatre-vingt-treize". The picture of man cowering before the creations of his own hand, which have grown beyond his control and turn to "plague the inventor," is a favorite spectra with a certain school of philosophers, and with alarmists in general. "R. U. R.", on the New York stage, is a fanciful prophecy of what...
This British boy, scarce 20, had been in the thick of the fight, twice wounded, since 1914. Now, late in 1919, he was helping to guard helpless women and children from massacre in Asia Minor...