Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...behind, but not hopeless, came R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History, tying A. L. Lowell '77, President of the University, with six votes, close upon whose heels came K. B. Murdock '16 with four ballots. Two votes were stars in the crown of Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene. Those who had only one included Alfred E. Smith, politcian; R. G. Noyes, tutor, and Eugene DuBois...
...State bank to suspend payment when threatened with a run. Then the Finance Commissioner will be called in to operate the bank until he decides whether continuation of business, reorganization or liquidation is the most suitable course. The law is aimed to catch the situation before it is hopeless. Legislation to the same end is up before the New York State Senate...
...bring him to the point where he could work more by himself than ever before in his Senior year and enough time on the unregenerate Sophomore or Junior to be sure that there was no hope of awakening latent powers befor he was consigned to the limbo of the hopeless in his Senior year. The tutor now has considerable flexibility in apportioning his time, and he should be encouraged to exercise his powers of distribution of time according to his own ideas, without enabling him to cast off entirely the difficult responsibility for doing what he can to make intellectual...
...story concerns a hopeless cripple, who is in love with his beautiful wife, but who married her before the airplane fell. She pities him, and all her love is for his virile brother. She shows the innocence and lack of premeditation of her passion by conceiving a child; but before the crippled husband--far too crippled to be a father--finds aught amiss, he awakes one morning, dead. Everything would have been all right had not the perspicacious nurse discovered that an overdose of sleeping powders had killed him. This Nurse Wayland had loved the handsome cripple...
...taking the route or highway north to conquer all China, he was joined by 24 Chinese divisions, each known by its historic numeral and the honorable title Lo Chun ("Route Army"). Most famed is the Sze Chin Lo Chun ("19th Route Army") because of its battle against hopeless odds to defend Shanghai (TIME. March...