Word: hopelessness
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...should be the Man of the Year; on the Palestine question; on the pros & cons of various Labor-Management disputes; and on the general subject of TIME'S news-handling (said one writer: "You are incurable optimists about everything"; said another: "You are preoccupied with the hopeless, unhappy and eccentric side of existence...
...game marked only by listless, sloppy play, the Crimson Varsity stumbled to a 40 to 20 win over a game but hopeless Coast Guard five before a crowd of 300 at the Indoor Athletic Building Wednesday evening. The preliminary game went to the Cadet Jayvees...
Recently, speaking of "NonObjective Art," I suggested that TIME (among others) take a course in "Non-Adjective Writing." But the matter now seems more hopeless. So, I disrespectfully suggest that we, right here and now, drop the whole Art Department of TIME as a malicious libel not only upon the entire subject of Art but all honest artists everywhere...
...tradition of James Hilton's Lost Horizon, is a Polynesian Shangrila. It is plainly designed as a refuge for readers who have had enough of wartime realism. Two Navy flyers are floating on the Pacific in a flak-shattered PBY. One of them passes the tedious, hopeless days talking of the lush, tiny island that he dreamed of as a boy. The fish they finally catch must have been poisonous, because Gene, the navigator, dies that night. But Pilot Brooke wakes up to find the island there, just as he had always dreamed it. And when he gets ashore...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...