Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four long years of War France and Britain tried in vain to break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan...
...first sectarian college south of Virginia. In 1861 Poet Sidney Lanier and all its other 100-odd students marched off to war. Its endowment vanished in Confederate bonds, its buildings were burned in Sherman's March to the Sea. Friends tried in vain to revive it when peace came...
Court, who last year hoped in vain that Mr. Farley could induce President Roose velt to make him Ambassador to Italy. Mrs. Farley told her beaming husband of her triumphs : "Did we see Mussolini? Say, we saw everything. Yes, Mussolini, of course. A most charming man. He jumped up when we were ushered into his suite, rushed over and took our hands. The first thing he said was. 'Where are your husbands? Are you girls traveling alone?' "At the horse show in Rome we sat in the same box with the King. He seemed to be a very...
Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers' 1,060 affidavits in order to decide whether the National Labor Board could legally force an employer to let Labor Board agents hold a union election in his plant...
...which he discovered was not a bid, only a "quotation." Few days later C. Morrison Smith & Co. urged him to buy more shares, explaining that the quoted price was now 75? but that they would let him have some at 70?. Speculator Eilertsen did not buy, again tried in vain to sell at 65? a share...