Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with a summa or a high magna but looks in vain for any flash of gold dangling from his watch chain...
...Edwards, a wiry Negro, dashed the half-mile in 1 min., 52 2/10 sec., breaking the intercollegiate record set in 1916 by famed James E. (Ted) Meredith. Stanford's Harlow Rothert put the 16-lb. shot 50 ft. 3 in. For 51 years college athletes had tried in vain to better 50 ft. Last year Rothert's teammate, Eric Krenz, succeeded with a heave of 50 ft. 1 in. This year Rothert broke that record twice in one sunshiny afternoon. Krenz came second with 50 ft. 5/8 in. Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard, intercollegiate title holder...
Fortnight ago ex-King Amanullah grunted and sweated on a Kandahar platform doing a cloak & box trick to show his people that he was worthy to be their King (TIME, May 27). News from India last week indicated how vain were Amanullah's grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife...
...true that much of the delay has been occasioned by a hope that a changed government in England would view further reductions for Germany with a favorable eye, it is to be feared that the hope is vain. Nations move slowly, and modern elections are too full of local issues to be determinative. The Germans would be well advised to make the best temporary terms which they can secure, with provisions for a reconsideration at some future date. Further delay seems dangerous to the economic welfare of the world. And breakdown implies so many threats to economic peace that...
...Editor Pew was not downhearted: ''In summation I surely cannot say that I believe Don Mellett's martyrdom was in vain, though the sacrifice was terrible and though the tangible results seem vague. The very fact that we are here thinking and talking of these things means some thing. Culture turns on a slow wheel. . . . It is as incredible that Don Mellett's self-sacrifice, dying that others might live, will fail to cast its radiance upon striving millions as that the morning Summer sun shall fail to awaken the sleeping earth, open the petals...