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Word: vainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those Bishops who have proved their impotence [against Romish influences] that this House is being asked to make over yet more power. . . ." Cries of "Right 'Jix'! No Popery!" constantly interrupted Sir William as his speech gathered force. He sat down amid roars of applause. In vain pallid Lord Hugh Cecil* coldly interjected: "The Church of England is not, after all, a mere society for the better contradiction of the Pope." In vain, for the House had risen to "No Popery!" as a nation rises blindly to the trump of war. At 11:30 p. m. a division (vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Popery! | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...probably vain attempt to render less uninteresting an article which is primarily statistical, a few matters of interest are mentioned, including the names of the several coaches with the years in which they were in control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 YEAR SURVEY SHOWS CRIMSON ABOVE BLUE | 12/16/1927 | See Source »

...President and sought to locate hospitals in a way that would be advantageous to his own interests. A homeopath himself, he sought to have homeopaths replace allopaths. He established a stoolpigeon system within the Bureau and in other departments of the government as well. He was a vain, strutting little creature and fancied that he had a great attraction for women. He held himself out to be the personal representative of the President and he spoke with a great show of authority when asserting his position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Revelations | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...very cheerful ... and sane and lovely" it is to come to this healthy writing after the vain mouthings, the verbigeration and easy obscurity of the Neo-Joycian school...

Author: By B.h. ROWLAND Jr. ., | Title: Two Views of Life: Milne and Hemingway | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Edward Massey '15, who has had long experience with the Club, both as an undergraduate, and as a coach since his graduation. The surge of progress, the triumph of the new West over the lariat, is the motivating force of the presentation. Hard-riding, gun-toting cattlemen struggle in vain to protect their grazing lands from the invasion of foreign homesteaders. The action of the play occurs in Western Nebraska within a period of two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESPIANS CHOOSE WILD-WEST DRAMA | 11/8/1927 | See Source »

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