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Word: fruitless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...efforts of the captain and coach will be fruitless of the candidates for the team do not respond by regular attendance at the practice. The coming three weeks will enable the coach to become acquainted with the members of the squad--an absolute essential to success,--and will give the new men an excellent opportunity for becoming prominent earlier next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPRING FOOTBALL PRACTICE. | 4/27/1908 | See Source »

After several years of experience with Intercollegiate football, after careful consideration of the criticisms which have been made of the game, and after the many honest but fruitless efforts to change it so that these criticisms could be avoided, I have become convinced that the game as it is played today has fundamental faults which cannot be removed by any mere technical revision of the rules...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REID QUESTIONS FOOTBALL | 11/9/1905 | See Source »

...stock of more than about a million volumes; and have other places of storage for the least useful volumes. If the idea of a limited library could once be accepted, the classification of books on the shelves could be made reasonably permanent, and many sources of waste or fruitless expense dried...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESIDENT'S REPORT. | 2/2/1904 | See Source »

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