Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that without universal tutorial standards must take a sharp drop. This is a very serious defect of English as a non-honors field, although the blame lies on present difficulties and the limiting Faculty vote more than on the department. Without the benefits of tutorial, the student is virtually helpless in the face of an overly profuse, but un-integrated, selection of courses...
...your Manners & Morals [TIME, March 24], you quote Mr. Lawrence Frank . . . as saying: "Pups, like babies, are helpless, demanding, and brainless, should be muzzled and fed frequently." Mr. Frank said nuzzled...
...York Times uncovered a story that shocked U.S. music lovers. The Office of Alien Property, which seized the U.S. business of Puccini's Italian publishers as enemy property, had sold rights to the music to a Broadway producer, Milton Shubert.* Puccini's heirs and publishers were helpless...
...proper study of babies is puppies," said Lawrence K. Frank, father of six, director of Manhattan's Caroline Zachry Institute on Human Development, in the New York Times Magazine. Pups, like babies, are helpless, demanding, and brainless, should be nuzzled and fed frequently. Readers' conclusion: prospective parents should have a puppy first...
...mistaken for a legal or moral case. While Harvard students and all comers receive the mantle of membership at the door of the organization, an fulfill the other obligations of membership by filing this charter in their wallets, the law of Massachusetts proscribing racial discrimination stands flouted and helpless in the fact of a direct violation of its spirit and intent...