Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they huddled on the thwarts or lay half-conscious in the bilge. At last they reached the Great Barrier Reef and, with no chart but Bligh's memory of a voyage with Captain Cook, found a passage through. In a happier dawn than the one that saw their hopeless start they sailed into the harbor of Coupang, with Bligh still at the tiller and none of them quite dead...
...surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite of their muscularity; the quality and effect of this she draws into the bent bodies, the downcast eyes, the melancholy despair and hopeless resignation of her subjects. With compassion she makes ink and paper plead for her sufferers; when he looks at the prints the jaunty, smart, well clad and fed spectator feels the same compassion more sharply than if he saw the original subjects (though not more sharply than he ought); that...
...halls with his pal "Forenoon." Though he does his earnest best as a seducer, something al ways pulls him up short. Suddenly he drops college, goes home to Neloa and after an agonizing struggle marries her in the full knowledge that he is a fool and the future is hopeless. The Author, like his hero, is the son of Idaho pioneer farmers and went to college in Salt Lake City (University of Utah), later taking his Ph. D. at the University of Chicago. During his first year in high school Fisher wrote a novel, had sense enough to burn...
...milk for the little children and the very ill; garden seeds for a leper man so that he may raise his own vegetables-perhaps with a hoe strapped to his stumps of arms; medicines ($5 a year) so that those just developing the dreaded malady may never reach the hopeless mutilated stage; a Christmas dinner of hot meat and vegetables for an entire colony of lepers ($20)-many of whom have had no other amply satisfying meal since last Christmas. That is the kind of Christmas gift that will have real meaning, that will alleviate suffering unspeakable and will bring...
With Old George in hospital his Leadership of the Labor Party passed automatically to fiery, Radical Sir Stafford Cripps who advocates a Rooseveltian dictatorship in Great Britain to be brought about by passing an "Emergency Powers Bill" (TIME, Nov. 13). With Labor in a hopeless Parliamentary minority, Sir Stafford stands no chance of becoming Britain's Roosevelt, short of a general election which was nowhere in sight last week...