Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mortimer, you're hopeless...
...heavy doors of Memorial Hall swing open and the veterans surge in. What follows is not a hopeless struggle between the veterans, who pour through at the rate of several hundred per hour, and the heavily-outnumbered book staff; Mrs. McCloskey said the system works "beautifully...
...Mayo Clinic, Dr. H. C. Hinshaw, after finding that streptomycin stopped the growth of tubercle bacilli in guinea pigs, gave the drug to 24 hopeless human patients in advanced stages of pulmonary tuberculosis. Nineteen improved (though four relapsed after treatment stopped). Dr. Hmshaw's conclusion: though streptomycin arrests, it does not eradicate T.B will be valuable only as a supplement to other forms of treatment. Other findings-Tularemia (rabbit fever). A seven-day treatment with streptomycin (one gram a day) promptly cured 63 out of 67 cases...
...over one million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
...introspective young war widow and three jittery ex-marines, the humdrum postwar world looks pretty hopeless. Dorothy McGuire cannot put aside the dead romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...