Word: hopelessness
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...that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will cease to function as an exhibiting group after its current exhibition appearing in the Harvard Cooperative Building is over was tentatively confirmed last evening by Mrs. Paul Herzog, present executive of the organization. Unless what at the present time seems a hopeless financial situation is unexpectedly remedied, the present exhibit which is characterized as setting a "new high" in the association's history will close the history of this organization, which was founded by Harvard undergraduates three years...
Defense seemed hopeless. "Alfonso de Bourbon y Habsburg Lorraine is guilty of high treason," a Parliamentary Committee had already reported. "He is guilty of heading a military rebellion [the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship]. . . . He is guilty of lese majeste against the sovereignty of the Spanish people...
They decided that the pain of cancer is transmitted by sympathetic nerve fibres threading the walls of the blood vessels. Taking only cases rejected as hopeless by at least two reputable doctors, they claimed: 1) that they had eliminated pain in 71% of the cases treated with their extract; 2) that in all cases where the patient did not die the cancer became necrotic, ceased to smell, sloughed off leaving a clean hole. For study 415 patients were sent to the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at Los Angeles, there given Coffey-Humber injections by Coffey-Humber representatives, the effects watched...
...front box thumbing their noses with great determination. Today at 9 o'clock in Sever 7, Dr. Carpenter will lecture in America's contemporary poetry. The Vagabond is going; for don't doctors work on diseased corpses? And all the poetry is not discuses even to such a hopeless romantic as the Vagabond. There is much that is good, and more that is interesting in this period. But to those souls who find the triumph of American Literature in this post war age lot the Vagabond remark with one of the late Victorians, "Fare well Romance, and all unseen, Romance...
...Athens, where Premier Eleutherios Venizelos of Greece might have offered hopeless encouragement to Cyprus' revolutionaries, the foxy old Greek statesman mercifully said: "The question of Cyprus does not exist between Greece and Great Britain. It exists only between Britain and the Islanders...