Word: hopelessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep the wolf from the door with medals. ... I have to eat and that's why I'm doing this. And you can take it from me, I've got this marathon dance thing sewed up. I passed through the squirrel stage, when you get hopeless and exhausted long ago. ... I could go out and break 4:25 for the mile right now. . . . That $1,000 prize is as good as in my pocket right now. . . . This thing...
...insane. Already Herbert was something of a criminal prodigy: at nine he had stolen an automobile, and tried his hand at a mail robbery. For the latter offense he was jailed 15 months, later released in the custody of his grandmother. A rural jury thought Herbert was a fairly hopeless case, felt that he should be locked up in Walla Walla penitentiary for the rest of his life...
...that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will cease to function as an exhibiting group after its current exhibition appearing in the Harvard Cooperative Building is over was tentatively confirmed last evening by Mrs. Paul Herzog, present executive of the organization. Unless what at the present time seems a hopeless financial situation is unexpectedly remedied, the present exhibit which is characterized as setting a "new high" in the association's history will close the history of this organization, which was founded by Harvard undergraduates three years...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...
They decided that the pain of cancer is transmitted by sympathetic nerve fibres threading the walls of the blood vessels. Taking only cases rejected as hopeless by at least two reputable doctors, they claimed: 1) that they had eliminated pain in 71% of the cases treated with their extract; 2) that in all cases where the patient did not die the cancer became necrotic, ceased to smell, sloughed off leaving a clean hole. For study 415 patients were sent to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at Los Angeles, there given Coffey-Humber injections by Coffey-Humber representatives, the effects watched...