Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shuffled up & down in front of the hospital. While the Senator's political enemies buried Assassin Weiss with honor in a nearby Catholic cemetery next day, the Senator's doctors ordered five successive blood transfusions, adrenalin injections, an oxygen tent. Toward sunset, when his condition became hopeless, it was arranged that the lights would blink in the sickroom to signify the end to friends and kin on the porch below. At 4 a. m. two mornings after he was shot, Huey Long, breathing heavily, was staring wild-eyed at the canopy above him. At 4 :10 the lights...
Lead v. Cancer. To the indignation of other cancer specialists who have found lead treatments ineffective for cancer, Dr. Arnold Erwin Osterberg & associates of Rochester, Minn. insisted that they cured seven cases of hopeless cancer by giving the patients enough lead phosphate to poison them. Before the patients lost control of their wrists or went mad, Dr. Osterberg gave them intravenous injections of calcium salts. This procedure overcame the effects of lead poisoning, expelled the lead from the patients' systems. By that time the cancers had begun to disappear, eventually vanished. The chemistry back of Dr. Osterberg...
...practical mine the Flin Flon claims looked hopeless. They were 87 miles from the nearest railroad in the depth of Manitoba's bush. Nevertheless Jack Hammell sold the idea to a Manhattan financier without benefit of facts, figures or engineering reports. An investment of $150,000 cash did not even pay the costs of a thorough survey. Another man sank $400,000 in the Flin Flon, then he too gave up. But Jack Hammell still had the Flin Flon options...
...impoverished nobleman. Though both girls were in love with him, it was Angele who married him. Catherine was terribly jealous of her sister's happiness, but when she came home from her strange school to find Angele deserted, her jealousy vanished, and she helped Angele keep up the hopeless pretense that some day her gipsy-like husband would come home...
That he still had genius there was no doubt. At Roosevelt Field one day the builder of a rickety homemade plane was unable to get it off the ground. Other pilots gave the contraption up as utterly hopeless. Acosta, who had not flown in a year, climbed in, took off with ease, put the ship through vertical banks, dives, zooms, wingovers...