Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prince Jaime, Alfonso's only other living son, on whom the succession would normally descend, is a hopeless deaf-mute...
Paradox though it may be, Harvard looked a good 50 per cent better while taking a 19-0 defeat from Princeton than it did a week ago during that tragic 10-0 whitewashing handed out by hard-driving Dartmouth. A week ago the situation looked hopeless; now there is some light ahead for the approaching Army game...
...Chairman Fletcher looked over the map of the closing campaign, he could spot some hot but hopeless contests. To himself he must have admitted with a grim smile that the campaign, as a whole, was no contest...
Instead of 300,000 registrants, Commissioner Knox found last week that he had on his hands 520,000. Under the plebiscite program, less than two weeks remained in which League supervisors could attempt to check the lists and weed out perhaps 200,000 frauds. Calling this time limit hopeless, testy Briton Knox prepared to ask the League for an extension of the checking period, hinted that it may be necessary to postpone the plebiscite itself...
Ever the conciliatory, constructive statesman. Ambassador Davis called the London naval situation last week "difficult but far from hopeless.'' Though each of the Big Three had aired its views to the Press and made discreet private contacts they will not begin to negotiate officially until this week, will try to rough out a groundwork permitting France and Italy to join the London parleys by Christmas, with a view to calling the 1935 Naval Conference early next spring...