Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...battle. Firing opened at 7,000 yards, the two fleets steaming in parallel columns like a classic exercise in an Annapolis textbook. In three quarters of an hour the leading Russian ships were out of action and Admiral Rozhestvensky gravely wounded. After nightfall when the Russian fleet was in hopeless disorder, the Japanese torpedo boats struck...
...hanged himself just before he was to plead guilty to the Boettcher kidnapping (TIME, Feb. 19). Last week in Pierre, S. Dak. the trial of Snatcher Sankey's widow and sister-in-law, accused of aiding the abduction, came to an indecisive end when a Federal jury reported "hopeless" disagreement after 28 hours. But there are other newsworthy members of the Boettcher clan and to Denver and Colorado the name also means sugar. Charles Boettcher, octogenarian grandfather of Charles 2nd and head of the family, is a founder of Great Western Sugar, biggest beet sugar company...
...provide some keys to University Hall for the minor officials such as the Dean of the College. Last night we saw Dean Hanford trying the door by his office and finding it locked, try all the rest of the doors in turn. Finally giving it up as a hopeless job, he turned forlornly away...
...lodgings where her only friend is a blowsy adventuress. When her two pre-War pals are demobilized one of them plans to start an honest weekly; he dies of cancer before he can make a beginning. The other retires into scientific research. Hervey leaves her job, helps found the hopeless paper and serves it faithfully until it founders. Her husband becomes more & more of a problem. As this first volume ends, Hervey is beginning to find an answer to her difficulties by getting to be a moderately successful novelist. A chronicle-novel by a painfully honest contemporary chronicler, Company Parade...
...track situation looks pretty hopeless for the Crimson with the Yale meet coming up on Saturday. If Eddie Casey was pulling his punches against the Green, there is still chance for a decisive win, but an optimistic guess at the score, on the basis of the Dartmouth meet, would give the Kli a good five point advantage...