Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take action are the Daily Mail, the Daily Herald, and the News Chronicle. All of these newspapers copied the articles which appeared in the Rome papers at the time of the accusations. His decision to take action against these dailies was made because he deemed that it would be fruitless to sue the Italian papers, since in doing so he would only be attacking the Italian government, which issued the information to the newspapers...
...search for Handsome Dan has kept New England buzzing for almost a week and has been featured by numerous amusing incidents. Within the environs of Cambridge, Charles Apted and his cohorts have carried on a courageous but fruitless search which has carried them into the furthest reaches of the University, and sent them scurrying in all directions at the slightest rumor. It was expected that the Colonel would neglect his dog hunt on Tuesday in favor of the Eliot Centenary Exercises, but when the crowd gathered in the court of Eliot House for the unveiling of the new bust...
What Professor Schumpeter has done for the Economics Department has been to lead it forth from the forest of conceptual windmills and scarecrows in which it has been wandering fruitless- ly ever since the turn of the century Now, at least a substantial portion of the department has been made to understand the necessarily realistic implications of the Conservative View by a man who sees them not in the cheap syllogisms of an Economics A, but in the suffering and starvation of a once flourishing empire strangled culturally and economically by the forces of revolution...
...Loaded seaplanes need a brisk headwind or a slightly choppy sea to help them pull up from the water. The ships of 10-F huge Consolidated sesqui-planes with 100-ft. wingspread and twin Wright Cyclone engines, were each loaded to the gunwales. After a half hour's fruitless taxiing over glassy water Plane No. 4 hoisted herself into the sky. Thirty minutes later the flagplane piloted by Commander McGinnis got off. For nearly two hours they circled over the bay while the remaining four charged up & down and smaller planes taxied around to kick up a swell. Finally...
...present Fascist developments, and other movements of that kind are not real revolutions. They are fruitless and sterile. The average man of today is too flat; has not the 'springs' with which to drive himself into the future. He talks always of his ancestors; to get anywhere he should change inheritance to heritage, he should become an ancestor himself. The people of America seem to be rising out of this flatness better than those of any other nation they are coming to realize that the present day is equally, if not more, thrilling and interesting than the past...