Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vigorous stories of the West has been replaced by no less immoderate scorn of their crude scenes and rough action. Abroad it is otherwise., "Even his detractors," writes Mr. Collins, "set Bret Harte in the same constellation with Poe and De Maupassant; and better balanced judges may look in vain for his superior in fire, originality, characterization, and range of power...
...years Harvard and Princeton resumed relations upon the gridiron, Princeton winning in both years. And then again they ceased to play, the series being thus interrupted for fourteen years. During these long and barren years numerous college diplomatists, graduates and undergraduates, endeavored to reestablish the series, but in vain...
...apparently adds another feather to the cap of unofficial cooperation. In the middle of his graceful bow of acknowledgement, however, the administration receives a rude check. The experts at Geneva have conclude that all the constructive work of the forty-eight states which have signed the protocol is in vain, so long as the United States stays aloof. "What profits a World Court of International Justice," say these authorities. "If a refractory state, outlawed for refusing to abide by a process of international law, may set the world at defiance by supplying its economic and military needs at American markets...
...true that the future President took a course in political economy while an undergraduate, but Dr. Laughlin looks in vain for suggestions of those qualities which later made him famed beyond his classmates. "The case for academic training as a preparation for politics," he concludes, "is not a strong one, except so far as the university may possibly work for character rather than for scholarship." There is certainly no hint in this biography that Roosevelt, who seven years after graduation was Republican candidate for Mayor of New York, ever participated in what political activity was then known about the Yard...
...Twenty years ago, when I was a; Harvard. I remember Professor baker expressing the urgent need of a drama building, with adequate provision for producing plays, painting scenery, ex perimenting with lighting, etc. Ever since, he has been pleading for such a building, and pleading in vain. I know that he has offered to raise the money himself, but the authorities at Harvard, evidently believing that such an effort on his part might divert funds which they desired to secure for other purposes, barred every effort. Other universities have offered him everything that he wanted in the way of equipment...