Word: availables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Professor George Herbert Palmer of Harvard. Her friends were amazed, felt that her marriage would be an unsupportable loss to Wellesley, suggested many means of enabling her to continue her great work, pointed out that Professor Palmer might resign from Harvard, take up residence at Wellesley?all to no avail. The couple were married and disappeared into an obscure honeymoon bicycling in England and France...
...British and French noblemen who owned Confederate bonds appointed a committee of four trustees who subsequently tried to obtain some money upon their clients' investments, but without avail...
Puffer, one of the recent additions to the squad, will probably get the assignment for mound duty this afternoon, although Cotter or Johnson are possible hurlers. If the Crimson does not emerge from its recent batting slump, however, good pitching will be of no avail...
American cargo steamers operating from New York or Boston are obviously handicapped by this advantage of the British shippers, as they are by the undiversified character of American export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...
...delegations at once developed. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania proposed an alternative, on the ground that it was unjust to deprive Southern districts of any direct representation in the Convention. Senator Howell of Nebraska and Senator Bursum of New Mexico made a stand against annulment of the reform-to no avail. Without a roll call the South was restored its full delegate strength-and a little bit more- and to offset the latter other States were also given increased representation...