Word: availing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tied the bundle up neatly with a bit of twine, and handed it to the first redcap. When they had reached his car, Vag was seized with a fit of remorse, and graciously handed the colored boy fifteen cents. The horrified porter, finding his protests to be of no avail, summoned a guard with "Anti-tipping Assistant" on his cap, and between them they persuaded Vag to take back his extra five cents -- all in bright new pennies...
...ball games. Though he once studied art at night school under Robert Henri (George Bellows, Guy Péne du Bois, Rockwell Kent were fellow students), critics persist in calling him a primitive. Arnold Friedman does not mind much. "A primitive," says he, "is one who does not avail himself of the known tricks and is roundly scorned by those who recently have picked up the newest ones...
...find she has become a legend and a saint, Luise Rainer was all innocent girlhood. But she could not spring to life as the other Joan -the fierce and fiery spirit, the obdurate deliverer of her people. Her voice rose, her eyes flashed, her little fists clenched to no avail: the effect was stagy and elocutionary...
...nets and passed out to Ervin who banged the rubber home around Kieckhefer who had fallen in front of the goal Warren Winslow, Dave Eaton, and Bon Cox, who put on one of his finest displays, made repeated efforts to tally again in the period, but to no avail...
Right wing Warren Winslow gave the Tiger sextet the scare of its life several times on solo dashes down the ice through the whole Bengal team, but to no avail. The Crimson almost scored another marker at the close of the second period when a low puck bounced off Dave Eaton's chest almost into...