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...their complacency. From the outbreak of the European War in September of 1939 down through December, 1941, the majority of students were more interested in Yale weekends than in the Battle of Britain. Pressure groups were working for both for and against intervention, but to relatively little avail...
...Time and change can naught avail To break the friendships formed...
...settled in The Netherlands and wangled huge sums of money from the Dutch War Ministry to finance a new explosive, "the Bourbon bomb," on which he was working. In Delft in August 1845, Naundorff fell mysteriously ill. The Dutch King's personal physician attended him, but to no avail. A few days later he died. The death certificate bore the name Charles Louis de Bourbon...
...looked in Encyclopedia Britannica, Webster's unabridged dictionary, Thrall's Handbook to Literature, the Oxford Dictionary, and several other smaller references, to no avail. What does clerihew mean...
...view of misconceptions currently being voiced concerning the relationship of Formosa to our strategic potential in the Pacific, I believe it in the public interest to avail myself of this opportunity to state my views thereon ... Prior [to the past war] the Western strategic frontier of the U.S. lay on the littoral line of the Americas, with an exposed island salient extending out through Hawaii, Midway and Guam to the Philippines. That salient was not an outpost of strength, but an avenue of weakness along which the enemy could and did attack...