Word: hopelessness
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...over St. Louis. But in the American League only a baseball blackout could have stopped the New York Yankees short of their fourth straight pennant, their fifth under Joe McCarthy, their eleventh in all. On Saturday afternoon they made it mathematically certain, beating Detroit while second-place Boston, 17 hopeless games behind, lost to Cleveland. To make it a bigger Yankee year than ever, six of the 13 Yankee farm teams also won pennants in their minor leagues, four got in playoffs...
...prep schoolteacher who enjoys frightening a 13-year-old boy. The Hollywood heels are the worst, comprising several of O'Hara's most excruciating women and zoological men. The author's nearest approach to liking (not very near) is reserved for: an old barber, a mild, hopeless Phi Beta Kappa, a prostitute, two husbands in love with other women, two wives in love with other...
...course Jim Farley's grudge against McNutt is rooted in intraparty politics, but my hair is enough like Farley's to help me understand that the grudge is fertilized by a hopeless envy of a head of hair like that...
...essential functions of the University can continue, without being seriously curtailed and crippled by the departure of teachers who have built up important undergraduate courses and sustained the major duties of the tutorial system, is a problem which now presents almost hopeless difficulties to many heads of departments...
...Mayo. As it does with the greatest efficiency for 80,000 patients a year in the great Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn., medical science did all it could for 73-year-old Dr. Mayo, who had been suddenly stricken while traveling in the Middle West. But his was a hopeless case. Few days later he was dead...