Word: avail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink and be destroyed, as its mate had been. Last week the buck's predicament, by now a national news story, brought Superintendent Gardiner Bump of New York's Conservation Department to the scene. But before...
...Austrian gendarme tried to stop them, was nearly run down, fired at the car, struck Nazi Hofer in the knee. At 5 a. m. the car was found abandoned three miles from the Italian frontier at Gries. Alpine troops and gendarmes searched the mountainsides with bloodhounds, to no avail. Franz Hofer turned up safely over the border in Bolzano next morning. As soon as he was well enough to be moved he was lifted into a plane, flown back across Austria to safety in Bavaria...
...provisions of the law for double assessment are plainly stated. Mrs. Couzens and I believe that the moral obligation is plain and we do not desire to avail ourselves of any technical or other reasons for not paying the assessment...
...hero has formed no feminine attachment to allay the disquieting fears of our fascinated schoolmarms, and we are beginning to question whether there really existed a maiden's prayer, or whether the answer was short circuited. Here at least is a case where wire-tapping would be of more avail than wire-pulling...
...Government to pay the hog producer rent on a specified amount of his corn land, provided he retires that acreage from corn production and also restricts the tonnage of hogs marketed." The farmer who already has his 1933 acreage planted and fertilized will not be able to avail himself of the benefits of Prong...