Word: availed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them key Byllesby officers for years. Next day Byllesby & Co. asked SEC to rule that since Byllesby no longer controlled Standard it was exempt from the Holding Company Act. Later these three resigned, were replaced by two trustees having less obvious Byllesby connections, but to no avail...
...game started off slowly as the score see-sawed between the two teams. Columbia was working fast off the backboard, while the Crimson seemed to lack confidence, and worked the ball down to the basket to no avail...
...Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life featuring (to no avail) a childbirth on stage...