Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enclose check for renewal. TIME has become a necessity. A perfect antidote to wordy news and vain repetitions. Style reminds me of Sydney Bulletin, Australia's national weekly. This paper was started without a staff, run mainly on contributions from all over the country, from mines, cattle stations and the bush. These were edited by the office...
Many a public health official many an educator searched the report for hints of what aid he might wheedle from the Foundation for his particular work next year. But wheedling the Rockefeller Foundation for money is in vain. Its program is definite, although by no means inflexible. Their trustees, with John D. Rockefeller Jr. at their head, decide on a year's program; their administrators, organized by President Vincent, accomplish that program...
...President expected a caller -expected in vain. Governor John Hammill of Iowa was late for an appointment with him,. Moments passed, the Governor's tardiness emphasized itself. Finally came, not the Governor, but word from him. He had not reached Washington in time to keep his appointment. He would call the next...
...Well, here I am ... I stick to my principles, as I believe I will feel that my suffering and anxiety here in prison are not in vain...
...vain Laborites tried to delay the break. Their leader, onetime Premier James Ramsay MacDonald, was still so weak (on his arrival from the U. S. last week) that he could not address the House, but merely hobbled in using a cane. Other Laborites, marshaled by Deputy Chairman of the Labor Party John Robert Clynes, spoke, but under the heavy drawback that they feared to seem to take the part of "Bolsheviks," "Reds...