Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Four weeks in July and August, two weeks in January, ran the negotiations. All were equally fruitless. Last week anthracite miners and operators closed their negotiations a second time with the anthracite strike unsettled. The war would have to continue further before peace could be achieved. The anthracite strife entered upon its fourth stage, for although the deadlock continues there has been progress of a kind...
...perfunctorily, it will be engrossed and sent to the President. He will consult with his Cabinet, especially Secretary Mellon. He may then sign it with or without remarks, or he may veto it, in which case it goes back to Congress- but speculation too far into the future is fruitless...
...Natural Science which has had many kinds of publicity (TIME, March 16). When the brothers were trekking through perilous snowy passes in Kashmir and Thian Shan, losing ponies and porters, and living off the land with their trusty rifles as they dashed back into the Pamirs after one fruitless visit, their vicissitudes were followed as though they had been hunting the north pole instead of a species of mountain sheep unknown to our museums...
...since then he held the same post, although in 1920, and again a year ago, unsuccessful attempts were made to unseat him. He gradually became dominant in Republican politics in Georgia, where he essayed the dual role of lawyer and dispenser of patronage. All attempts to unseat him were fruitless. He was a very able, rough and terrible debater. Besides, he had the gift of eloquence as only a Negro can have...
...Significance. The importance of the forthcoming conference lies in what attitude the powers are prepared to take. If they are prepared to make concessions the way may be open to a gradual amelioration of the present tense and fruitless state of affairs. On the other hand it will lay their nationals and their interests open to suffering and trespass if not destruction by the anti-foreign sentiment abroad in China. If the powers stand strictly by their treaty rights they may so weaken the Government on which they depend for guarantee of those rights, that they may within...