Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, he contends that there are too many banks. Where one strong institution might adequately serve a whole region, there are five weak banks struggling for existence. When crises come, some of these are bound to go under. In the second place Mr. Hammond points to the hopeless chaos in which the dual system of control, state and national, has resulted. Two different sets of rules, and two different responsibilities are thus set up; and the banks take advantage of this by chartering under both agencies. Often whatever operations are prohibited to it as a state bank...
...abstract an art that criticism of it either has been made up of meaningless superlatives and half understood psychological terms, or has become so technical that it is of little use to the layman; and often, as in the comments on symphony programs, it has become a hopeless hodge-podge of the two. With a few exceptions, critics have lacked a training broad enough to comprehend the rational place of music among the other arts and its true relation to life. In fact, musical criticism, especially in the last few years, has been emotional, formless, and unreliable...
China's heroic eigth Route Army on its desperate and hopeless defense of Shanghai (TIME, March 14 et ante), was contributed not by the Government but by terror-stricken Shanghai bankers and merchants and patriotic Chinese abroad-a clear budgetary saving of $12,000,000. As Dr. Soong said stubbornly, three months after the Shanghai Incident: "At present the most important thing for China is to restore her financial stability. We must go on living within our income for a year. We have done it for five months. The Chinese financial situation is better now than that...
...admission for wheat. But we have an unconditional 'most favored nation' treaty with Czechoslovakia which also makes gloves and which would thus be able to claim the same preferential rate. In whatever direction we turn we meet this obstacle. . . . For this we can thank the State Department. . . . "Hopeless as it may seem there is a way out. First, no more tariff boosting. Next, we must put an end to the making of 'most favored nation' treaties. Finally, we have got to sit down at the council table with the rest of the world and talk...
...Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, will never be old-fashioned or out-of-date. Troilus. a younger son of King Priam of Troy, falls head over heels in love with Cressida, a comely young woman whose father, soothsaying Calchas. has deserted to the Greeks. Troilus thinks his case is hopeless, prepares to take it lying down, till his good friend Pandar, who is also Cressida's uncle, discovers his secret and takes control of the affair. By judicious scheming, trickery, persuasion Pandar arranges a meeting, silences scruples, fans the flame, stages an assignation at his house on a stormy...