Word: helplessness
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...Helpless the little boat...
After wreaking vengeance on the helpless railroad, the detachment rejoined the main body, which had now reached Cambridge, and a general work of devastation was inaugurated; telegraph-poles were torn down and eaten by the more voracious of the monsters; paving-stones were torn up and thrown into Charles River until the Back Bay Problem was completely solved, no water being now visible for miles around; lamp-posts were thrust into the chimneys of dwelling-houses, and a pyramid of horse-cars five hundred feet in height was constructed, which, with all such drivers, conductors, and passengers as were...