Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised on a farm in a cold climate would use such a simile. Far from being independent, a hog "on ice" is the most helpless of creatures...
...Public Library is possibly less well-known than it deserves to be. For this purpose he makes frequent trips up Fifth Avenue in all kinds of weather. All crannies about the portico are carefully peered into. Among some of the loiterers in the entranceway it is known that a helpless bird carried to Dr. Tesla will bring 75?. It was Tesla who insisted that the water in the fountains should be kept running, in order to provide drinking water and bathing facilities for his feathery friends...
...contain them. Roy Graham Hoskins of Boston counted 140,000 in mental hospitals alone. The need for solution of the dementia praecox problem "is exigent," yet it "is being grossly neglected." Signs of this mental disease are constant melancholy and self-absorption. Bad cases behave like very young, helpless children...
Advertising. General Charles McKinley Saltzman, chairman of the Federal Radio Commission, said that the Commission was helpless, under the Radio Act of 1927 which permits no governmental censorship of radio programs, to stem the tide of "excessive and nauseating advertising." Though British listeners hear no advertising, they must pay a government license tax. There is small doubt that the 15,000,000 U. S. owners much prefer a "sponsored program-a genteel, ladylike term for radio advertising," to a broadcasting...
...effective an organized association of draft-resisters could be is hard to determine. Although a small group would probably find itself helpless once war was declared, it might have considerable influence in restraining a government from beginning hostilities. Certainly a formal association could have far more effect than a number of isolated individuals. When patriotism and national honor become sacred idols, as they do in times of imminent or actual war, many are constrained, for lack of moral support, to abandon the principles which they hold in saner moments. Such moral backing a Federation of resisters would give them...