Word: hopelessness
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...present one of these hopeless cases has struggled through 18 private lessons to become quite a finished individual performer. But, alas, he is not always in seclusion, and in the company of others, any "savoir faire" he may have acquired is immediately lost and he becomes flustered. In this state, a scrimmage or even the lightess contact work with a neighboring couple invariably disillusions one more aspirant to fame, Hollywood, and Ginger Rogers...
...owlishly. "-There stands a tribute to useful work under Government supervision, the first slum clearance and low-rent housing project. Here, at the request of the citizens of Atlanta, we have cleaned out nine square blocks of antiquated, squalid dwellings, for years a detriment to this community. Today those hopeless old houses are gone and in their place we see the bright, cheerful buildings of the Techwood housing project. Maximum Debt. "In the spring of 1933 many of the great bankers of the United States flocked to Washington. They were there to get help of their Government in the saving...
...aware, like other experimenters, that cerebral tumors frequently nudge the olfactory centres of the brain, blunt the sense of smell. But sharpness of smell is so inconstant and the weak human nose can detect such minute quantities of a substance, that precise measurement seemed hopeless. Then Dr. Elsberg tried having the subject hold his breath while whiffs of air saturated with coffee or lemon oil from a stoppered flask were pumped up the nostrils, directly against the ends of the olfactory nerves. He found that in normal persons a fairly constant and easily measurable quantity of scent-laden...
...problem, that when it is a matter between him and his patient he may generally decide it in his own way without interference. The Rockefeller Institute's famed Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel declared that sentimental prejudice should not obstruct the quiet and painless disposition of incurables, criminals, hopeless lunatics...
...treated 7,513 patients with supra-corcin, our extract of the adrenal cortex. Of these, 3,872 died before they could receive the minimum amount of treatment needed for more than relief from pain. We selected 1,040 of the others because there was no doubt that they had hopeless, inoperable cancer. Five years after treatment 53 or 5% of these 1,040 are entirely free from any sign of cancer. In another 55 cases the growths have become inactive...