Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...such a battery of constructive suggestion, coming as it does from so authoratative a source, is of immense value at this time. This is particularly the case since Mr. Root, like most of his fellow Americans, takes a liberal view of the Covenant, and considers it far from hopeless. He considers the Covenant as it stands an instrument of great practical power, but as yet far from a perfect one. If reports be true, President Wilson in Paris has already taken Senator Root's views into account. Let us profit by the fair and reasonable position which Mr. Root...
...place that it occupied five years ago. Not only are three great empires smashed, but the fourth--Germany, seems to be in the midst of civil war. If the world lets go, that country as well as Russia, Austro-Hungary and Turkey, are certain to plunge into confused and hopeless civil wars. It is not for the interest of the rest of the world that half of Europe and half of Asia should be left to fall into anarchy. It is not to the interest of the United States that the spirit of division and ruin should spread into...
...only the more hopeless reactionary element of the Bourbons and Tories who regard the President's peace proposals as a sort of half-way house to Bolshevism. Having more brains than the Bourbons and Tories, the real Bolsheviki have perceived from the outset that their real enemy was Wilsonism. That is why they unhesitatingly chose German autocracy as an ally and why they have resisted the President's program as bitterly as Junkertum itself...
...measure of the American university's war-time service is the maximum of which it is capable of rendering. A hundred percent institution today is one which is devoting the entire energy and ability humanly possible to the support of the Government. Hopeless as such theoretical perfection may be, there can nevertheless be no doubt that universities are falling short of what may reasonably be expected of them. With the end of those initial out-pourings of men, they have failed to keep pace with the increased energies of the remainder of the nation's life...
...indeed tragic that a great race should have passed under the control of such a spirit, so utterly repugnant to human ideals of manhood, so utterly hopeless to the very future of mankind...