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Word: fruitlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...explaining the work, Professor McLaughlin emphasized the fact that present mines are being exhausted, while the demand for metals in increasing, and that without positive ways of knowing where, and in what quantities, hidden deposits lie, millions of dollars would be wasted in fruitless digging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEEK NEW METHODS OF ORE DISCOVERY | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...under cover of a black and windy night and sever the life's blood of a tree, cherished by me for over three years, it is then time for the Cambridge Police to send in riot calls, and to deal death in the Brattle Square Police Station without the fruitless efforts of a trial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strains of Jester's Piccolo to Feature Dedication of New Elm--Vesper Lanterns Guard Hallowed Hole | 10/13/1927 | See Source »

...continued efforts of the H. A. A. yesterday to find pace-makers for Wide again proved fruitless. Coach Farrell stated last night to the CRIMSON that the burden of the task of pushing the Swedish runners to a new record would fall on the shoulders of three Harvard undergraduates if the H. A. A. is unable to find competitors outside of the University. The three men are E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of the track team and intercollegiate mile champion, J. L. Reid '29, captain elect of the cross-country team, and Lesile Flaskman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERMANENT TROPHIES TO ATTRACT TRACKMEN | 5/5/1927 | See Source »

...Preparatory Commission for a Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations meets to day to resume those discussions which last May proyed so fruitless as to warrant their long adjournment. Within the last week, France has made it only too clear that President Coolidge's somewhat ill-timed proposal can expect no Gallic support. And Russia still stands aloof on the edge of Europe, an inevitable bar to any effective disarmament in Europe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEXT WAR | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...play Six Characters in Search of an Author. Critics who deny that Professor Pirandello is a philosopher at least agree that his genius for sardonic humor is considerable. If he only toys with mankind's moral and spiritual absurdities, and makes the stage a debating platform for fruitless metaphysics, he at least does it with terse wit and few didactics. Not a few clowns have been "deep" before him, but few "deep" thinkers have managed also to be amusing, and friendly. The amiable title of one of his plays (which opened last week in Manhattan), is Right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fiction: Mar. 7, 1927 | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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