Word: avail
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson continued to apply pressure to Columbia, but it was to no avail, as Harvard entered the intermission with the score still...
...momentum was now clearly with the Friars as the Crimson struggled to hang on. Harvard continued to fight valiantly, warding off numerous Providence attacks. The Crimson was even able to muster a few chances of its own, but it was to no avail as regulation ended with the score deadlocked...
Surprisingly, that sad wave never came. Between really enjoying senior spring, keeping up with classes and pursuing jobs (to little avail), there was no time to be melancholy about my last trip to Hilles, my last helping of General Wong's chicken or my last section. Indeed, eight months later, I am still sick of add-drop forms, Ma Soba, the Grille and Harvard chairs. I am still ready to leave...
Time and again, the Kennedy School has invited world leaders such as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and former President Jimmy Carter, but to no avail...
Root seeking inevitably demands patience--and ingenuity. Joseph Silinonte, 42, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had scoured U.S. Census, Naturalization and Board of Election documents for the birthplace of his great-great-great-grandfather, saloon owner Charles O'Neil, to no avail. Even an 1887 obituary in the Brooklyn Eagle was no help. Then he remembered that the record of O'Neil's son's marriage in 1872 had contained a little mark indicating a dispensation of banns--forgoing the public announcement, on three successive Sundays, of intention to wed. Silinonte persuaded a diocesan official to take him to the Roman Catholic...