Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First act of the new Inukai Cabinet fortnight ago was to take Japan's yen off the Gold Standard (TIME, Dec. 21). Last week the outgoing former Finance Minister, thrifty Junnosuke Inouye, famed for wise and adroit retrenchment, boiled over in helpless rage. "There was no technical reason for the action taken by the new Cabinet!" he charged. "It enabled a small number of persons to reap huge profits,* but it will do irreparable damage to our country's financial position!" Blandly the incoming Finance Minister, venerable Korekiyo Takahashi, said that he would not trouble to draft...
...Caucasians. At the basis of this change lies the naturalization of China. China, the largest country in the world with her population of 400,000,000 people, has been a puppet in the hands of the Europeanized nations with their national unity. In her disorganized state she has been helpless. Without any national feeling but controlled sectionally by selfish lords who relied on their army to keep them in power, China could not organize. But give her nationalism and the consequent organization, and she will be a tremendous power. More than this she will be a menace with her overpopulation...
Italy honors the fearless spirit of youth by naming her National organization of boys after the youth Baltila, who is reputed to have opened fire on the enemy invading his native village with the only weapon at his command, a rock, while all about him stood helpless in the paralysis of fear. He gave his life to kindle the fighting spirit in his fellow townsmen and lives forever in the lives and activities of the boys of Italy. It is not likely that the established order in Italy will do honor even in death (if indeed he is lost...
...school, for the first time the boys & girls separate. But now you begin to recognize them as individuals. Bernard is happy-go-lucky, lovable; Louis is cold, snobbish, ashamed of his Australian accent; Neville is shyly passionate. Jinny is an attractive little animal; Susan fierce, proud; Rhoda is ungainly, helpless, doomed to hopelessness. After school Bernard and Neville go to the University; Louis's fortunes need him in business. Jinny takes to London society like a duck to water; Rhoda hates it; Susan goes home to be a country girl. As the sun climbs through the heavens they...
...remarked Professor Albert Einstein to a Berlin society audience last week. For two hours he entertained with learned explanations of such familiar phenomena as why tea-leaves gather in the centre of the cup, why airplanes fly. "Why does the wind die down at sunset, with the sailor left helpless out in the middle of the water?" said he. "This is a serious matter. I was once left with a young lady alone in a boat until two o'clock in the morning...