Word: hopelessness
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Medically, the case is practically hopeless. Ortiz' diabetes, according to the doctors who reported to the Senate's investigating committee, is of the mellitus type, productive of small hemorrhages destructive of the eye's retina, though he is "able to perceive objects with the aid of strong sunlight and positive periscopic lenses." Dr. Castroviejo is, on the other hand, famed as the author of over 400 operations involving the grafting of a normal piece of cornea in a diseased eye. Reduced to one-syllable words, the doc is good but the case is bad. Chance of recovery...
...commodities, on allowances, discounts, etc., not only for OPA itself but for carping customers. This is an expensive nuisance to large retailers. But to the hundreds of thousands of small grocers, general merchants, etc., who keep records in an aboriginal way if at all, the clerical problem is almost hopeless. Lew Hahn thought that a lot of small fry would be put out of business if the recording provisions were strictly enforced...
...small proportion of the applicants were notified that they had not yet been accepted. However, the situation is far from hopeless for this unlucky group, University Hall announced, because for the first time in the history of the Houses those who were not accepted in the first assignment will be enabled to re-apply this week in an effort to find themselves a niche in the House system...
...South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...
Quarter-sphere defense may be feasible from a military viewpoint. Economically, Professor Spykman believes that it is hopeless "without the tin and the tungsten of Bolivia, the copper of Chile and the tungsten, wool and tanning products of the Argentine, our war industries would be seriously crippled even if we could produce in northern Brazil the materials -which now come from the tropical zones of Asia and Africa...