Word: vain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...festival ushered in the greatest of the Pasadena pageants, "The Victory Tournament." A military spirit pervaded the day. Parades of soldiers, long lines of be-garlanded guns comprised the major part of the morning exercises, while in the afternoon a Mare Island team of marines struggled manfully but in vain against an eleven from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station...
...they never did before. We are now in the grip of a great coal famine, which, before it is past, will bring suffering to the highest as well as to the lowest. Its ramifications extend to every branch of our life; its crushing effect on industry makes vain every attempt to minimize its evil. Its paralyzing consequences are felt by the ships at sea and in the nations beyond...
...Will not our soldiers have died in vain clipping the claws of the German beast if the claws of the beasts sullenly stirring in England, Japan, Italy and innumerable lesser countries are permitted to grow unchecked? And the check is the League of Nations...
Having maintained an abashed silence for over a week in the vain hope that the CRIMSON might see fit to contradict the somewhat startling assertions that were nonchalantly dropped at our thresholds on the morning of Friday, November 14th, we are taking the liberty of questioning the veracity of the same...
...husky nation. The failure of the treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little did they think that a senator of the United States would place his party before his cup. But there are whisperings abroad that those same thirst-inspiring senators have "a jug 'neath...