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Word: hopelessly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the Union has the greatest people to area ratio, and they're first years so they'll be excited to meet people. On the other hand, do you really want to meet first-years? Adams is hopeless; no one will talk to you. Mather's not bad, and it has a good view. You might try Winthrop, if everyone's getting along. With Kirkland and Eliot, I suppose you could go wrong. Quincy's too noisy, Cabot's quite nice, Leverett's not pretty, and Dunster has lice (well, it has ants, I think, but that doesn't rhyme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Who can I eat with? | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...experience this year demonstrated, the concentrations are not much better on the nurturing-and-briefing front. My tutor last year, a person who regarded me as a hopeless bourgeois Philistine not worthy of his golden words, limited those words to "make sure to take statistics...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: `Now What Exactly Is the Core?' | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...Beavis Generation's way of thinking, my friends and I are hopeless saps. We twentysomethings, overindulged products of the late 60s and early 70s (when the birth rate sagged) are far too weighted down by the powerful and populous Baby Boomer Generation...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: The Beavis Generation | 9/15/1993 | See Source »

Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grades" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One Grader's 1962 Reply | 8/17/1993 | See Source »

...Democrats' side, we have Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56, a stereotype in himself. No public figure has been saturated by more sorts of controversy without ever suffering major consequences. (But perhaps you thought that Kennedy had a legitimate shot at the presidency, you hopeless romantic.) Don't expect anything except kind coddling and approval from our Massachusetts...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A Different Kind of Motley Crew | 7/27/1993 | See Source »

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