Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...hardly gotten the lead when he fell from exhaustion and Endicott, Bardeen and Norton of Harvard finished in the order named - the tie which the judges declared to have been between Endicott and Bardeen being given to the former by the latter. Pierson of Yale was a hopeless and indisputable last
...they acted like men who had been left to work out their own salvation. All who saw the game must have felt that it was a burning shame that men who showed so plainly that they could have accomplished so much should have been left to struggle in a hopeless individual contest against eleven men playing as one, and all through lack of proper coaching. It is this feeling, the protest against the needless sacrifice of excellent material, that gives the single touch of bitterness to our defeat...
Whitman played full-back owing to the somewhat surprising fact that Phelan did not turn up or send any explanation of his conduct. The half-backs were Jackson and McNear. With such material behind the line the game with Yale ought not to be a hopeless affair by any means, despite the nine men from the Yale 'varsity training table...
Scene 3. Simon's cheeky and hopeless request. The pieman's prompt and startling question...
...crew has been making good improvement lately, and though they can hardly be called a fast crew, are by no means hopeless. They have been rowing from 32 to 36 strokes a minute lately, and in good water cover pretty good spaces. Whether they will prove faster than last year's crew or not depends upon the improvement they make...