Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completed two years ago, as an important link in the system that supplies Los Angeles with water from the mountains. The fruit growers and ranchers in the Santa Clara Valley fought in vain against its construction. They wanted the water for their lands. In the southwest, where water is scarce and tempers are hot, a dam has never been built without an argument between agriculturalists and city folk...
...stone twirled on the end of a piece of string.) She was fond of animals, particularly horses and dogs, and one of the tragedies of her life was the death of her favorite borzoi, who jumped thirty feet out of an open window and broke his neck in a vain attempt to reach her side...
...forty steps down, and back again: the favoritism show the attendants in this vital matter-this is what has caused indifference and urbanity to pass from the minds of students of History I. But the forbidden gate still looms: and Rome may fall, and Popes and Emperors rage, in vain-while the privy passageway beyond remains a secret...
...Lampoon and to a less degree of the CRIMSON. We of this office are only human and sometimes wish that someone would play with a fire extinguisher or do something spectacular in order that ancient and long-standing statues might be put to use. We have hoped in vain, and in fear of premature age through inactivity I have resigned...
Nightclub. Seventy boys and 70 girls of the Medill High School, Chicago, attended a dinner dance at the Club Bagdad, were caught in a raid by prohibition agents, denied they had been drinking. Agents searched for evidence in vain...