Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balloonets, caused by the chafing of the bags against wiring points as the ship pitched and rolled. He had reported these leaks last July, he said, and recommended changes in construction which might have required three months. Instead the points of contact were padded, but to no avail...
...editors of the CRIMSON may have once opposed the institution of the House Plan with all their hearts. . . . But now it has been instituted, and is obviously there to stay. Even the most short sighted person must see that support, encouragement, cooperation will avail more now than opposition and ridicule. While to have seized upon such petty circumstances as the wearing of dinner-jackets by their notable guests of honor, and their position at a higher table, is to add absurdity to an already unfortunate editorial...
...undoubtedly one of the most fundamental and primitive reactions of the race, and until comparatively recent times the college student has been singularly fortunate in the achievement of such preeminence. But of late years the feverish exploitation of gin, necking, and sartorial eccentricities has been to no avail against the far more adroit advertising of Masons, Elks and the Ku Klux Klan, and the unfortunate collegian is faced with the possibility of being recognized by the public in all his shame as a perfectly normal individual...
Dancing Partner. The plot of Dancing Partner is the one in which a young and disillusioned rakehell wagers that he can avail himself of the favors of an allegedly virtuous maiden, then discovers that she is impregnable and falls in love with her. Shakespeare thought it such a good idea for a play that he used it in Cymbeline. Furbished up by Producer David Belasco, the play officially inaugurated the 1930-31 season and provided one interesting innovation: a seduction scene in an airplane, high above the clouds...
...Suspects were arrested in New York State, New Jersey, even as far away as Philadelphia, but the Misses May and Ring failed to recognize any of them. More wild, coded notes to the police and the Journal kept special police squads rushing about Long Island and Westchester, to no avail...