Word: helplessness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale-Wesleyan championship game was played at New Haven, Saturday and resulted in a crushing defeat for Wesleyan. Yale's team work, running and dodging were perfect, and Wesleyan, though playing a stronger game than against Princeton and Harvard, were helpless. The teams were as follows...
...think any fair-minded person will see that it is not "obstinacy and stubborness" that restrain the overseers, and that until they get more money-and money which they can usethey are as helpless as ourselves. Gore Hall needs to be remodeled, if not partly rebuilt; for the light in the daytime, except on the brightest days, is very deficient and ill-arranged. The library authorities have such a scheme in consideration, but it clearly would be poor policy to commence the undertaking before they have enough money to carry it through. The proper place, it seems...
...message and the provisions of the bill. He further discussed the question in the three relations of economy, consistency and national honor, and demonstrated that on each ground the President should have signed the bill. He closed with an eloquent and stirring appeal in behalf of the aged and helpless soldiers of the civil...
...Fredriksen, last August, while taking a trip to Plymouth on board the Stamford, was severely injured in the collision of the boat with another steamer. Her spine was seriously affected, and for two months, she was utterly helpless, and she is now a delicate invalid with no immediate, if even a distant prospect of being able to earn her living, and support her children...
...exquisitely conscious of what it was doing. It passed around by the side of the house, and gained an entrance. Then I heard it come creeping down the hall. It reached the room where the children and I were. I in the meantime, lay helpless. I struggled to move, but was impotent...