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Word: vainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directed against President Coolidge's and Secretary Kellogg's policy in Nicaragua and Mexico. The Administration read about it, no doubt: but he'd stubbornly to its own ideas on U. S. foreign policy. Could the following representatives of the people have spoken in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Oratory, Etc. | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Thus wrote recently, in Toronto one Ernest V. Steiry, editor of newly established atheist weekly Christian Inquirer. Last week he was arrested, charged with "blasphemous, indecent and profane libel of and concerning the holy scriptures and the Christian religion." In vain he pleaded: "I was not writing of the Christian God but the God' of the Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Atheist | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...Captive?One of Fate's crazy shuffles wherein a feminine, body gets a masculine instinct, and struggles in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Simplicity instead of vain display; originality instead of blind imitation; progress in view of this period of evolution and improvement to keep up with advancing civilization; national harmony in purpose and action; beneficence to all classes of people and friendship to all the nations of the earth: these are cardinal aims to which our profoundest abiding solicitude is directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First Levee | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...which lasted from January to May, 1926. A ponderous German "crisis" which may last for weeks or months before a new Chancellor is chosen loomed. During this period one more attempt will be made to form a stable "Big Coalition": the goal toward which successive Chancellors have striven in vain. The Reichstag adjourned last week until January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: 1' Christmas Crisis'' | 12/27/1926 | See Source »

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