Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered by the Russians 15 years ago, was the next objective. General Nobile hoped to land a scientific party on Lenin Land but so thick was the falling snow, so menacing the cold and dreary waste, that after hunting in vain for a sight of the land, the project was abandoned and the Italia's nose pointed toward Spitsbergen...
...fact they grew so wise that the Great Father (head god) in a fit of jealousy cursed them to infecundity. But gods thrive on the fear and flattery of mortals. So Great Father thought up subservient man for their entertainment, molded him of refuse. The dying Satyrs tried in vain to teach their lore to this tribe of puny and hornless creatures. But the earth-crawlers spent their happy, ignorant days in pleasant dalliance-not only with fair fellow mortals, but with the immortals who often condescended. Thereupon utter confusion arose as to who was half-god, who three-quarters...
...revealed a shadowy disillusion which grew in anger until it attained terrifying proportions. His characters were assailed by a curse that left "happiness but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain." There is an undefinable fear of life growing from the feeling that all is transitory and vain. Hardly lavished scrupulous care on his work, with the inevitable result that this gloom of life found artistic outlet in his realistic portrayal of man suffering the torments imposed by an ever-malignant Fate...
...miracle quite the equal of the restoration of a fallen dynasty, considerably more of one, in fact. At the start of every baseball season for the past ten years or more the cry has gone forth that the Red Sox have come to life again, but all in vain. September found them at the bottom of the column...
...sputum. Just before midnight the results of the inoculation were published. The bulletin read: "The type of pneumonia from which Bennett is suffering has been disclosed by the inoculation of mice as type III." A simple statement, but it meant the sera were useless, the flight was in vain, the breaks were against Bennett...