Word: fruitlessness
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...over the White House announcer declared that President Roosevelt had just broadcast his 36th radio address since taking office. But to most listeners his speech was his first heart-to-heart with the country at large since last October when, hopeful of price-upping, he started RFC on its fruitless gold-buying campaign (TIME. Oct. 30). What the President had to say last week from his oval study was in the nature of a review of the winter's work and a cheery farewell on the eve of his Pacific vacation. His smooth round voice was as vibrant...
Next month Harold Compere, at the insistent demand of the citrus growers of southern California, sets out on an extended exploration of South America on an almost hopeless quest for such a heroine. Thus we search the Seven Seas. One lucky find, however, will pay for years of fruitless search...
Having come fresh from and pregnant with memories of the Ann Arbor May Festival, it was with no little satisfaction that upon reading your article on Frederick A. Stock [TIME, May 21] I realized that at last, after years of fruitless waiting, I had been present at the making of history-well, minor history...
...that tissue grafts of Rous sarcoma, a transplantable animal tumor, continue to grow and spread in their new host. Instead, the transplanted tumor, he had found, disintegrates, starts a new tumor growing around it. Later Dr. Banting himself stood up to tell the cancermen a story of his four fruitless years of trying to make chickens immune to Rous sarcoma...
...outside world the candidate is a pestilence, and the snooping, prying novitiate is a bane to all civilized people. Even to those on the inside his behavior is inexplicable. In these days of emphasis on psycho-analysis it would not be a fruitless task for the psychological laboratories to delve deep into the inner makeup of the CRIMSON candidate...