Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...White Australia policy for Australia involves the purity of our race, the maintenance of our standard of living and the continuation of the influence of Western civilization upon the peoples of the Orient. It prevents at the same time the exploitation of helpless natives such as maintained in the old days...
...fact England and France have differed from the first as to the policy which should be adopted toward their common adversary--France insisting upon one of strict exclusion and domination, England favoring a more lenient attitude. During the two years following the armistice, while Germany lay supine and comparatively helpless, there could be no more than parliamentary debate upon the question, as each country tried to win the other to its own views. Now that Germany has sufficiently recovered, however, to be able to take her place once again in the world markets, the problem of how she shall...
...force, handicapped even as it is by lack of physical equipment, should certainly function in a more organized manner. For instance, the business of the Elective Office should never have been so concentrated in one person, that when the person left this year, the office found itself well-nigh helpless,--a ship without a rudder. It is true that when errors occur involving an undergraduate's standing, the deans will always rectify them,--the deans are ever willing to hear all complaints but the fact that an error is always corrected does not justify it in the beginning...
...transportation, even the proper and vitally necessary steps to restore agricultural production to a pre-war basis, have not in any practical way begun. The means are not available for these nations to help themselves without outside assistance, and that assistance they anticipated from the League of Nations, itself helpless without America. If there is one thing Europe needs at the present time it is encouragement, and this we are failing to give. France and England are losing confidence in our sincerity. The criticism of the people is barely echoed in the regrets and insinuations of their governments...