Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Barbee '28, premier University moundsman who has scored nine victories in ten starts, will do the hurling honors for Harvard. It is likely that he will be opposed by Foster Sanford, counted formost among college pitchers, who held the Crimson hitters helpless for six frames on Soldiers Field six weeks ago. On that occasion, Harvard rallfed in the closing innings, but was unable to overcome a big lead, and succumbed by 11 to 7. Barbee did not appear in this game...
...best to bed down helpless, untidy insane patients Dr. William R. Thompson of the Eastern State Hospital at Lexington, Ky., describes in the Journal of the American Medical Association: He has 34 beds that are "oblong boxes, made of one-inch dressed boards; 6½ ft. long, 30 in. wide and 18 in. deep, standing on legs twelve inches high and painted white. They are filled with fresh sawdust within six inches of the top. From such a trough, the patient cannot tumble out; an attendant can scoop out any sawdust . . . patients do not suffer any inconvenience whatever...
...Helpless in the early innings before the hurling of Foster Sanford, star Pennsylvania moundsman, the University nine rallied too late to overcome the big lead of the Philadelphians and were toppled by an 11 to 7 score on Soldiers Field yesterday...
...three plays to be given to night in the Agassiz theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, "Matches", "An Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father...
...WhenNorthern Chinese troops tried to enter the international city at Shanghai, last week, they were turned back by British "Cold Water Soldiers,"* standing motionless with fixed bayonets. Disgruntled, the Northern soldiers, mere organized bandits, turned back into the Chinese quarter and there began heartlessly to exact from helpless merchants a tribute...