Word: naughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imitation's naught but suicide...
...Zadgorsky's turn next. He cried, prayed, writhed, but it availed him naught. His guilt was confessed. He had accepted a bribe of about $80 and that bribe had cost about 200 people their lives and much suffering to many scores. It was meet that he should die, and the crowd echoed the thought. Nowhere was there a sign of pity or sympathy, as there had been for Koeff. Strong arms seized him, sent him on a long journey...
...defeat; the basketball team, after leading for the bulk of the game, lost by a single point; the track team gathered a bare two points less than their Yale opponents; but yesterday's reverse was the most disappointing of all. Eight innings of practically perfect pitching went for naught in the ninth after victory seemed within Harvard's grasp by virtue of a single score in the eighth which had broken a seven inning deadlock...
...possible for the verse of one country to paraphrase that of another. Nevertheless, they were abominable poetry Some of the lines possessed a certain insipid grace; far more of them had the stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight...
Here is emptiness indeed, where the servants and the objects of their toil count for naught; or, possibly all vanished without trace simultaneously with the entrance of the Professor...