Word: hopelessness
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...scared out cheaply, the Finns had once again proven their durability and burnished their national honor. They had incidentally made it plain to the Russians that they would be a very troublesome people to govern, and if any net gain had accrued in putting up a game but hopeless fight instead of selling out for bargain rates to begin with, this...
...virtues were first reported in the Lancet in January by Dr. Franklin Bicknell of London's Farringdon Dispensary. Last week Neurologist Israel Spanier Wechsler of Mt. Sinai Hospital told a group of noted colleagues that, working independently of Dr. Bicknell, he had cured one man of the supposedly hopeless disease, had got a bedridden woman to walking about her house, had "improved" three other patients...
Though they never get to Singapore in this picture, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope buffoon their way through the high societies of San Francisco and the Hebrides. Their vaudeville antics and their casual repartee save the movie from the hopeless boredom of the others in the current Dorothy Lamour sarong series...
Major campaign contribution of Candidate Dewey to date has been to bring down to concrete instances the human distress he finds represented by astronomical figures, without making the prospect so hopeless as to contribute to the defeatism he condemns. At Portland, heart of the region where soil erosion has been a popular subject, Candidate Dewey lifted the campaign up a notch by talking about the erosion of capital: the U. S. industrial plant wears out at the rate of about $6,000,000,000 a year, said he; in six years of the New Deal the grand total of capital...
...theorists had become pragmatic, the practical were now willing to take a few theories. The scent of battle, and not a hopeless battle, brought Republicans together in Washington last week. To them the New Deal Administration was like an overfat, overspread empire, whose sentinels are asleep, whose palaces are termite-rotten under the gilt. The hungry guerrillas peered at Glenn Frank's battle-chart and sniffed...