Word: hopelessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scene set in the delivery room at Widener is the most complicated of the review, also the swiftest and most caustic. It rips and ribs "Harry's Club" for the hopeless book delivery and redtape-edged stack permits. The desk attendant bewails the competition from Boylston, and the mysterious building on the right, while a happy little fellow who appears frequently, and from nowhere, promises "Dancing in the Stacks Tonight" because it's reading period...
Having voted 3-to-1 for an earlier version, the House had already rejected the argument that the bill would not only "control" but stultify essential Federal functions. When Texas' lemony, relentless Hatton Sumners called the Senate bill up for final passage by the House, hostile but hopeless Administration leaders had already given up. This week they let it pass (176-to-51), expected a veto by Franklin Roosevelt...
Such questions were part of Army's new General Classification Test, streamlined lineal descendant of the World War I "Alpha" test, intended to help weed out hopeless misfits, keep pastry cooks from being assigned to blacksmithing duties or vice versa, bring to light bright boys who might make good officers...
...ready for his new mission as Ambassador to the U. S., where during World War I he was the popular, card-playing naval attaché of a friendly second-rate power. Things have changed since then. Every influential Japanese newspaper last week regarded Ambassador Nomura's mission as hopeless. Said Tokyo's Miyako: "The United States is disturbing our gigantic task of constructing a new East Asia." Said Hochi: "Sending an Ambassador to Washington is like ordering a man on horseback to charge a wall." Said the Army's mouthpiece, Kokumin: "The appointment is our last card...
...first thing in democracy is not economics but the dignity of man, the perfectibility of man, the fraternal basis of treatment and government by the consent of the governed," Merriam maintained. "Those who are not willing to stand up and fight for this program will find themselves thrown into hopeless confusion...