Word: availed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hague's speakers proclaimed at last week's rally: "I have lived here all my life and have never seen the day when I couldn't say anything I had on my mind." But next day a New York Herald Tribune reporter searched the city without avail for a man in the street who would talk for quotation about the state of civil liberties. The usual answer: "You know what might happen to a guy if he talks out of turn in this town...
...remarks of the author and manager were of no avail. Investigations revealed that one of the two live hens which will be used in the forthcoming production, had presented the club with a large white...
...suit. But, in an astonishingly frequent number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus. The only thing a doctor can do about the matter is-in embarrassing cases-to operate. Dr. Young, who has tried, finds hormone treatment of little avail at present for true or pseudo-hermaphrodites...
...their wedding night. His idea is to show his new strength of character by purposely disillusioning the romantically inclined Miss De Havilland. In the course of the proceedings, Mr. Howard successively insults her family, makes biting remarks about her moles, acts as a drunkard, but all to no avail. Miss De Havilland is exceedingly difficult to disillusion...
Even track coaches avail themselves of this new force, for during the past four weeks sprinters have been carrying on experiments with the electric eye in the Cage at Soldiers Field...