Word: fruitlessly
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...Eager also to make things hot for the Administration, the Committee pried out of a Marine Corps lieutenant who served as a White House aide last year an admission that he made tentative but fruitless efforts to set himself up in the business of selling arms to foreign countries...
TIME gladly prints Pressagent Raymond's letter describing its fruitless efforts to obtain a conventional picture of Dr. MacCracken. But let Vassar alumnae cease criticizing their president. TIME reserves the right to select its cover pictures, takes full responsibility therefor. Had there been a complete variety from which to choose, the selection might have been the same. The picture of Dr. MacCracken in Grecian robes was published twice before by TIME, and no objection was heard...
...stretch of whitish cloud formations shut out the sky and cloak the whole land in a tent that had the earth for its floor. Absent is the late pale green of heaven, the distant rims of the world are suffused into the gathering twilight. The land is barren and fruitless except for the smiling champaigns of flowers blotched intermittently throughout all the wastes. There is no wind, or breath of air, or life along this unemancipated expanse of soil. For the world and all its singing birds and budding trees and songs and mountains and summits are shut outside. There...
...well known to U. S. botanists. He is not listed in international botanical encyclopedias. But the Russians say he has developed a palatable blend of apple and cherry which is grown in Siberia, apricots that bloom on snow-covered trees just south of the Arctic Circle, a fruitless lemon tree whose branches yield lemon extract when pressed, frost-resisting grapes that flourish in Moscow and the Ural uplands. Undoubtedly he has produced fruits that yield more abundantly, stand shipment better and grow farther north than the older varieties. To bring out ever new mutations, he shocks with electricity the seeds...
...greatest feat was the translation of an ancient Welsh manuscript of Bardic music, written approximately 1,000 years ago and the subject for 200 years of fruitless inspection. This, says Arnold Dolmetsch, reveals "a flow of melody and a poignance that proclaim a most inspired and emotional period of music." Compositions of 934 A.D., he found, were "amazingly near akin to the most modern music...