Word: hopelessness
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...practical mine the Flin Flon claims looked hopeless. They were 87 miles from the nearest railroad in the depth of Manitoba's bush. Nevertheless Jack Hammell sold the idea to a Manhattan financier without benefit of facts, figures or engineering reports. An investment of $150,000 cash did not even pay the costs of a thorough survey. Another man sank $400,000 in the Flin Flon, then he too gave up. But Jack Hammell still had the Flin Flon options...
...impoverished nobleman. Though both girls were in love with him, it was Angele who married him. Catherine was terribly jealous of her sister's happiness, but when she came home from her strange school to find Angele deserted, her jealousy vanished, and she helped Angele keep up the hopeless pretense that some day her gipsy-like husband would come home...
...sent me by businessmen promising to live up to code standards, but most of them add "as long as we are able." Even a well-meaning businessman will have to cut wages if the 10% of chiselers in every business force him by cutting prices. Voluntary co-operation is hopeless. Here's a columnist-saying that he hopes the death of NRA will end a lot of industrial confusion. I hope he is right. And here is an editorial printed in a nation-wide chain of newspapers giving thanks that "at last the rule of Christ is restored." That...
That he still had genius there was no doubt. At Roosevelt Field one day the builder of a rickety homemade plane was unable to get it off the ground. Other pilots gave the contraption up as utterly hopeless. Acosta, who had not flown in a year, climbed in, took off with ease, put the ship through vertical banks, dives, zooms, wingovers...
...furious general, seeing his boasted success vanishing, telephoned back to a supporting battery to shell the French trenches, drive the men forward. But the artillery officer refused, unless the general would put the order in writing-which he was not insane enough to do. In 35 minutes the hopeless attack was over. The regiment was ordered out of the line the same day, was put under arrest as soon as it was safely in the rear. For the regiment's alleged cowardice, the general ordered one man from each company shot...