Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they must pay $380, an increase of $140, or almost a 60 percent increase. If these men had known that such an increase would be made, the majority of them would have decided to take the regular four year academic course. This increase strikes these men when they are helpless. They have already committed themselves and cannot turn back...
...much as they can get; every fall at the opening of the term there are as many persons who must furnish rooms, and who for the most part go to these same dealers for the necessary furniture. For the dealers, this is an ideal situation; those leaving college are helpless and must accept what the dealers offer; the new arrivals are almost as helpless and must pay them whatever is asked. The trade between individual students is so small as to have no effect on the general situation; that carried on through the medium of janitors is just about...
...attitude of clemency, led on by the hopes of future trade and by sympathy aroused through the false financial statement of her former enemy; and what little moral support our own government is giving is lent to the British. France, left to fight for her rights alone, is helpless. She needs aid and looks for it from America, who has been her staunchest friend...
...Upon the well being of these helpless mites depends the future of Europe. They are the basis of civilization. We must save them if we are to keep alive the love of humanity in the west; for we could never recover our self-respect if we should turn these children into the streets...
...admirable plan. But it is with the flame of the candle that the diners will be most concerned. There burns the mysticism of the lives of a coming generation; great and unselfish indeed is the spirit of those who would shield for a time the newly lighted and helpless name from the premature blasts or an unheeding world...