Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fighting gamely in a hopeless cause the Varsity cagers went down to defeat before the Green five at Hanover on Saturday by a 37 to 24 score. Jack Mason, one of the Sophomore shock troops playing at forward was Harvard's high scorer with eight points to his credit...
...vignettes of life under the New Deal for landless, dole-less, hopeless share croppers 25 miles from Augusta, Ga., as seen by Erskine Caldwell...
Thus the President sat at his desk last week balancing the good against the bad, the hopeful against the hopeless. As he came to his conclusions and put the finishing touches to his message to Congress for NRA's renewal, he was painfully aware that he was about to set off a fresh batch of oratorical pinwheels and skyrockets at the Capitol. Congressmen had not had a good rousing debate on NRA for more than a year and practically every member was spoiling to take the floor and fulminate on some minor grievance of NRA Administration within his district...
...Reynolds published the woeful information last week, and accompanied it with hopeful advice from the head of the Albert Soiland Radiological Clinic of Los Angeles. Dr. Soiland, 61, has been using x-rays for 38 years. As a result the skin of his hands is thick and swollen. Hopeless of curing them, he long tried to soothe them with various ointments and lotions. Dr. Soiland sails yachts in his leisure time. Last year it dawned on him that his hands felt better after being doused in salt water. He at once experimented in his laboratory with wet salt dressings, found...
...step toward maturity. A poor Idaho farm boy, cursed with sensitivity and ambition, he has weathered a dismal childhood, a hellish adolescence, has married, halfway through his hard-won college career,a pretty slattern. Though he fiercely intends the marriage to be a success he knows the prospects are hopeless. We Are Betrayed is the story of its tragic failure...