Word: utterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much puzzled by the fact that, in reporting a recent sensational trip from Orlando to a Philadelphia hospital [TIME. Nov. 9], your usually complete magazine suppressed the real news value of the incident-namely, the fact that the child was a sacrifice to the utter stupidity, ignorance and incompetence of a large section of the medical profession. I thought at first your press date cut off full details, and they would follow in the next issue. But I have not seen them yet. Why? The truth was given big space in all Florida newspapers the day after the child...
...rambling, soot-stained St. James's Palace the final plenary session began at 10 a. m. Small grate fires accented the palace chill. Shivering and snuffling, the delegates climbed the crimson-carpeted grand stair. They were grimly resolved to utter 33 prepared orations if it took all day and all night, which it very nearly...
...panting retreaters threw away their rifles, coats, hats, canteens, valuable extra pairs of officers' high boots, to run the faster. In the utter Chinese rout General Ma, who had begun the day by promising " I will fight so long as one Chinese stands by my side!" ended it safely some 30 miles ahead of the main retreat. For the rest of the week he skulked north of the walled City of Tsitsihar which Japanese took as their prize...
...liked Cambridge. We liked its great rambling quadrangles. We liked its utter lack of echoing, brick-bare dormitory halls. We liked the white colonial apartment doors, unpierced by mail slots for ad minions to thumb with circulars and manifestes. We liked the huge, gentlemanly apartments, with floors of oak and gleaming waxed rubber, with showers in every bathroom and two washbowls...
...Henderson had to tell Uncle Arthur. She had to tell him also that other returns showed the Labor Party crushed to utter impotence (final returns gave Labor 52 seats in the present Parliament, compared to 287 in 1929 and 267 when Parliament adjourned). When beaten Leader Henderson had heard the worst he sighed, "I am sad and sorry." Later he brightened, prophesied: "Before many months have gone the nation will be sadder and sorrier...