Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their preliminary flashes sent, press associations began to get an idea of the scope of the story.* Treading their way across roads strewn with wreckage, reporters looked in vain for the nocturnal orchard of cherry-colored lights on the derricks of the great Signal Hill oil field. All lights were out. But two tanks at the Union Oil Co. refinery in San Pedro were ablaze...
...look once more upon the honest revelry of ale. And the shades of the old Moors can not but rise in anger at the aridity of the common rooms which their antique arches crown. The Canutes of the south have retired in ignoble confusion. Cambridge also must struggle in vain against the triumph of a reborn tide...
...well-known to almost a generation of Harvard oarsmen, has at last succumbed to the ravages of time, tide, and Freshmen. When it was hauled out of the water last fall, it broke in half through sheer old age, and all subsequent efforts to restore it have been in vain...
...final impression is that of Sevitzky and his energetic attempts to revive Schubert. If sarcophagal revolutions are any indication, one may judge that the effort was not in vain...
...vain Policeman Zauritz's family declared that he had been a Communist, protested the State funeral. It took place before 500,000 Berliners who jammed Unter den Linden and the vast square between onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II's Palace and Berlin's (Protestant) Cathedral. For the occasion Chancellor Hitler put on his brown shirt again, sat in a front pew. Pastor Hossenfelder, in his funeral sermon, called Herr Hitler "the man whom God has given us for a leader" and said that the two dead men, having cheered the Chancellor's appointment, died...