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William H. Bossert '59, McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics, then criticized the philosophical basis of the core, which he said is a vain attempt to insure a broad but superficial intellectual background for all students...
With 1:37 left on the clock, Bob Hooft scored on a jump shot from the corner to increase the lead to 83-79. Pete Call provided Cornell's last bucket when he rippled the nets in vain with a jump shot from the corner at the one minute mark...
...Humphrey drugstore. The pair were married and eventually had four children. Always quietly supportive, Muriel gamely campaigned for her husband, but she did not share his round-the-clock devotion to politics. She liked to cook, sews her own clothes and concentrate on family affairs. She tried in vain to keep her husband from running for President every four years...
...self-loathing. He has convinced himself and his attractive, loving wife that "all the big books" have already been written. He feigns astonishment that "for the sake of some silly grabs at eternal life people would sacrifice secure jobs, loving families, decencies and proportion." Jupe finds such behavior vain and cannot keep himself any longer from imitating...
...vain. Inevitable, inexorable, creeps forward the tide of men's despair in this petty world of fact ("There was a flood in Boston in 1835, maybe there will be again"). And all will be in vain, gurp, forever ("If it was 1835 I wouldn't have to go on the unicycle to Revere Beach, I could drown in my rooms...