Word: fruitlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of Chicago, which opens Oct. 1, announced that it would have as a student Mrs. Ruth Walgreen Dart, daughter of Drugman Charles Rudolph Walgreen, who last spring loudly withdrew his niece, Lucille Norton, from the University called it a hotbed of Communism, precipitated a fruitless legislative investigation (TIME, April...
...Coast Guardsman, thought he saw a chance to make some easy money. From 1878 to 1882 U. S. Navy yard workers had been upped each summer from an eight-hour to a ten-hour day, promised overtime pay, which they did not receive. After a quarter-century of fruitless litigation 1,377 workers got the U. S. Court of Claims to notify Congress that their claims amounting to $322,000 were valid. Thereupon Hiram Mann prepared to lobby for the claimants before Congress...
...expects them to digest the heterogeneous meal without any aid, whatsoever. It is true that some courses still retain the section meetings in form, but as conducted at present, these are rarely of any material aid to the bewildered student. Conducted by indifferent section men, they often degenerate into fruitless debates over insignificant issues. Rather than solving the problems of the men, they serve only to increase his general feeling of perplexity...
...Station through whose classic colonnades the winds of rumor whistled shrilly. The President was about to address the nation by radio. He was not. The President was going to take advantage of a new "area of compromise." He was not. The President had lost his nerve for pouring out fruitless Government billions, was planning to cut relief needs to the minimum...
When Napoleon finally refused to have anything to do with Sir Hudson, hid himself in the house, the Governor ordered a luckless officer to report daily on his prisoner's presence. For weeks the officer and Napoleon played hide-&-seek. After fruitless days of snooping, the desperate man broke into Longwood one day, caught Napoleon in the bathtub, was pursued down passageways with royal imprecations. When Napoleon, for something to do, had a sunken garden built, the excavations to Sir Hudson's fevered mind, looked like earthworks...