Word: fruitlessly
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...several years to procure a payment from Boston's tax free institutions, and have consistently been perturbed by Harvard's willingness to make voluntary payments to bridge but not Boston. Occasional meetings have been held with the heads of some of the universities, but have to date been totally fruitless...
...said that if discussion with representatives of the City proved fruitless, the HCUA might ask all students to bring their bicycles to the Square on the same day as a mass protest. The students could take up all available parking spaces, paying in meter fee but refusing to move the bikes...
After much fruitless investigation, the CRIMSON succeeded in reaching someone who could clear up the great currency mystery: Mr. Henry Holtzclaw, Director of the Federal Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Holtzclaw emphasized that Public Law 140 said the motto was to be added "at such time as new dies for currency are adopted...
...almost that moment, tubby, quippy Mike Di Salle seemed a changed man. He quarreled with everyone. He submitted a huge budget without giving a hint about how the money could be raised to meet it; he vetoed one whole appropriations package passed by the legislature. He got into a fruitless fuss with Ray Miller, Cleveland's Democratic boss. For a while he said that he would not seek reelection, changed his mind, beat Attorney General Mark McElroy in the primary by a bare 33,000 votes...
...good part of Miss Carson's book tells about the deadly effect of wholesale spraying on these pleasant and harmless creatures. In vivid language, she tells how DDT spraying to protect elm trees from Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out the bird populations of many Midwestern cities, how fruitless attempts to exterminate the imported fire ant of the South by airplane dusting with dieldrin had dire effects on many kinds of wildlife...