Word: hopelessness
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...gone. The reason for this is obvious to them, but you with your untrained eyes must depend on their professional honor. . . . Davey Tree Surgeons will give nothing but first aid treatment to a tree that is starving. . . . Many clients urge them to break this rule by treatment of a hopeless case. . . . They answer: 'Yes, but our reputation is at stake...
...hopeless. I know that if launched a message across the void, my tutor would recognize. And no such Law as prevents my speaking to him would keep him from answering me. For he has never allowed me to do a thing by halves. I know that he would answer, I know...
...assumption of moral responsibility was not the thing to make foreign politicians chortle with delight. And when one realizes that unless the Constitution, is amended, that document alone makes illegal any higher check on the power of the President and Congress to make war, the situation seems rather hopeless...
...Lowden. "The next move will be Lowden's withdrawal," said observers, who already considered hopeless the undeclared ambitions of Frank Orren Lowden, famed Illinois economist, lawyer, farmer, businessman and onetime (1917-21) Governor. Mr. Lowden's friends claimed last week that he was already assured of 425 of the 545 delegates necessary for his nomination...
...called advertisements among which Mr. Tarkington's stories are inserted should have long since convinced him that the remark about not having to go to college to get an education is no empty aphorism, and that the university men of his acquaintance have reached their lamentable condition through a hopeless struggle to keep up with the more erudite readers of movie magazines...