Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...action should not dull the committee's mind to the principles for which the C.I.O. stands. Harvard labor enthusiasts would do well to make sure that the C.I.O. is not building up a vast organization of long-suffering people at the bottom of the pile just to glorify the vain and egotistical ambition...
...coffee. And what a girl . . . 1 Haug her once, I Haug her twice, and then I Klister. Oh, Boy! Sohm fun! But she says Seal Skin me alive if I try again. Oh, Shuss, the Pole, Bildstein got her first, and I'm left Tiering my hair in vain...
...painted dark and dismal. District courts throughought the country, and especially in populous and important financial centers, like the lower New York area, are bogged down in labyrinthinc legal tangles that take years to unravel. While cases sit on the docket for months in and months out in the vain hope of coming to trial, money is lost to all contenders as settlements drags out to the edge of doom, and the inevitable lawyers hover about like harpics waiting for their fees...
...Council held to be null and void the Dominion of Canada's legislative measures for unemployment insurance, minimum wages, limitation of working hours and regulation of marketing: the "Canadian New Deal." These measures were originally introduced by Canada's unpopular Old Dealer Richard Bedford Bennett in his vain effort to escape disaster at the polls by hastily copying New Deal notions from Washington (TIME, June 29 et ante...
...that time its occupant has been Bostonian Sanford Bates. Calvin Coolidge gave him the job of running Massachusetts' prisons nearly 18 years ago. So great grew his fame as a penologist that Herbert Hoover brought him to Washington, Governor Franklin Roosevelt and Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia tried in vain to lure him into the services of the State and City of New York. Having kicked politics out of the antiquated prison system and built 16 model Federal prisons, last week Penologist Bates resigned, turned over his job to his Assistant James V. Bennett, to try his hand at crime prevention...