Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate who has escaped the horrors of the cramming procedure which ensues when the day of reckoning looms. The routine of frantic review, late hours, neglect of exercise, tension, gloom, and the search for stimulants is a familiar if unwelcome specter. And the search for stimulants has not been fruitless. Last spring the resort to benzedrine was momentarily popular until "debunked" as habit-forming. This spring the answer seems to be caffein pills, which, it is claimed, are some ambrosian and utopian pick-me-ups which do every thing they should do, and nothing they should...
...After a fruitless 24 hours, the party stumbled on Gueffroy's skis. By prodding with bamboo poles through the new surface snow, searchers were able to tell where his feet had broken through the crust of the old snow. So they followed his trail, every few feet digging down to the crust to confirm their soundings. All that day and half the next they followed his confused, straggling steps deep into Sand Canyon...
...contain openings too small to admit the hand of a thief (and Churchman Varian declares there are plenty of thieves). Lately Ammidon & Co., which markets collection plates and hence has nothing to lose, began advertising alms bags in the church press. But Ammidon & Co.'s crusade has been fruitless. To date the firm has sold two pairs of bags, both to a church in the tropics which had experienced a wave of alms thefts...
...Paris, Rasonski's conference with Napoleon was as brief as it was fruitless. Dzjunka's one interview with the Emperor lasted slightly longer. As a souvenir she carried away a jeweled smelling-salts bottle and a future son. Although Rasonski got a vast Polish estate out of it and married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing...
Meantime, fruitless air bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...