Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Paterson returned to England, tried in vain to interest the merchants of James II's reign in a company to establish a colony on Darien. Hamburg, Amsterdam and Berlin also rejected him. While trying to find backers, he organized the Bank of England (1694), soon fought with fellow directors, resigned, went to Scotland...
...than had been planned. This was done. Never stopping to reflect that true collectivization demands simultaneous mechanization, the State has turned not 17% but 80% of Russia's sown area into so-called collectives. For the past two years these would-be "grain factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could not supply fast enough, great though its progress has been. Result: a sullen, spontaneous, nation-wide "strike" by Soviet peasants who have refused (and in some instances have been unable) to grow grain in excess of their own needs which...
...seem too theatrical. This danger was averted in a skillful continuity by Carl Erickson and Harvey Thew and in an amazingly successful impersonation of Haw Tabor (called Yates Martin in the picture) by Edward G. Robinson. Robinson makes Yates Martin what Haw Tabor very likely was-a gay, growling, vain man, dazzled and delighted by a world which, for a time, seemed made of silver. Aline MacMahon is Yates Martin's first wife; Bebe Daniels is his second. They help Actor Robinson make Silver Dollar a vivid and perceptive cinema biography in which the weakest moment...
...last week the reverse of that incredible episode was enacted. Lieut. Parker Abbott, U.S.N.R., nearly lost his own life while trying to make his terrified passenger jump from a spinning Navy plane. The passenger, another reservist named Floyd Vivian Schultz, sat motionless, paralyzed by fear. Lieut. Abbott tried in vain to push him out, finally had to jump, leave Schultz to crash with the plane...
...preventing the dissipation of energy. The early manufacturers of these machines saw no reason whatsoever why they would not work, and it was not until the nineteenth century that knowledge of the forces involved became sufficiently good, so that people began to realize that their labors were in vain. Professor Bridgman ended his address by picturing everything from the modern prize of view as being energy...