Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face of facts such as you quote from FORTUNE under ''Munitions Men'' we humble preachers and preachers-to-be get that helpless feeling that a fly in a reptile cage must have. However, I hope at least half a million of our intelligent readers absorb these exposures, brief though they evidently are, and do a little concentrated thinking and praying. I was moved to immediately find the first colleagues I could at this midnight hour and I read the article to them...
...life a helpless tool of one agency or another, Pu Yi has longed to dodge the trappings of state and lead the life of a normal western youth. As the last of the conquering Manchus that ruled China since 1644 it was his duty to have at least two wives. He did not want two wives, for he had already picked a beautiful bride from the catalog of a marriage broker. The daughter of a Manchu businessman named Jung Yuang, she had been educated by the Sisters Miriam and Isabel Ingram. Philadelphia missionaries, and preferred to be called Elizabeth. Elizabeth...
...present emergency, the National Government has taken over duties and powers heretofore reserved to the states. Many states, happily not our own, found themselves helpless to hope with their relief needs. For this season, they cried out in desperation or federal assistance. Were all the takes like Massachusetts, I venture to assert that no such abnormal bureaucracy as now exists in Washington would have been necessary. But many states are virtually bankrupt, and the funds now being dispensed by the National Government for the rehabilitation of other parts of the country come largely from the pocket-books of the taxpayers...
...high priests have been more venerated in America than elsewhere, and more dangerous. The first article in its creed is that all of the basic problems, all of the really sensational problems of our society, should not be touched; the large type is reserved for those who are either helpless or insignificant, who can be expected to feel the storm without retaliation. Superintendent Gill of Norfolk presented an obvious opportunity. He is a subordinate state official, engaged in a revolutionary penal experiment, without important political or financial backing. He has, as the administrator of sizeable appropriations, made many important political...
That it is distinctly a misfortune to require the unhappy instructors to forego their feeble pleasures is not to be denied; in the interests of their helpless victims, however, they should be required to omit this dim joy and give their examinations at least a cursory glance before they are unveiled...