Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...physical derangements, the merchant who lives in a world of leather or of cheese, the artist who knows nothing but tone or color, the savant without capacity for action--these men lack the ability for coordination which makes human relations intelligible and intelligent. Business men frequently are so helpless in fields other than their own, that they cannot choose service intelligently; professional men generally are slacking in perception of educational principles, that the only distinctions they can make are between conservatism, which they may consider to be safety or stupidity, and innovation, which to them may be synonymous either with...
...solved," said Senator William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Committee on Labor and Education, in a recent interview for the CRIMSON. "The public is at the mercy of the coal operators primarily and of the miners secondarily. If they fail to agree the public is practically helpless until they do agree and when they finally do agree the cost of their long disagreement is imposed upon the public in the way of increased prices...
...failed to come up to standard, but the next week witnessed a decided turn for the better when M. I. T. received a 9-2 set-back. This was the first defeat the Engineers had sustained, and thought playing in every respect up to their usual form, they were helpless before the University attack...
...difficult to select extracts from his various articles as the humor is so closely woven into the whole of each. His struggles with a typewriter--which by the way is "Ami et a mijge imean a midgt, made of alumium."--renders one helpless with mirth; while his essays on The Grasshopper, The Art of Poetry, and About Bathrooms, are inimitable. Their humor is somewhat more restrained than that of A Criminal Type, from which we quoted above, as also is that of Reading Without Tears: but perhaps for this very reason they are even more delightful and valuable. For impertinent...
...this country throughout the war, and had sent for their son at the first opportunity. But the Jugo-Slav quota was full, and the boy was shipped back, homeless and penniless. "A rotten deal" was what the official in charge of the case termed it; but he was helpless. Two young Roumanian girls were deported although their father, in this country, offered a thirty-thousand dollar bond for their release...