Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back in Cape Town, however, Premier Hertzog wisely took, last week, the line of not encouraging his supporters in vain hopes for a Republic. A careful reading of the Premier's speech shows, however, that it is consistent in letter with his former views of South Africa's absolute right to autonomy. In tone the speech was far more Imperial than is Premier Hertzog's wont...
Soon after the "Dean of Cardinals" had voiced his vain hope, there came a crisp announcement from the Holy Office. His Holiness will not raise the plenum of the Sacred College at present. Moreover only two new Cardinals? both Italians?will be created...
...comes on with occasional loss of blood. In such cases the blood marrow of the bones immediately manufactures enough strong red blood cells to make up for the lost ones. In pernicious anemia, the patient may live two or three years, but hope for complete cure has heretofore been vain. Blood transfusions give only temporary relief...
Furthermore, I for one am quite sure your effort is all in vain. Here is one company head who could never be convinced by such figures as you will secure that we could sell our product through your columns. Just because I own a Buick does not make me a better prospect for furniture. Neither does the fact that I went to college, while my wife did not, make her less interested in good furniture or me more so. So why bother to compile such figures...
What is the sanction and purpose of the Big Three? The time is long past when they could claim athletic supremacy over other colleges. They are exceeded in numbers and wealth. Is the title one of conceit and vain-glory? If such it should cease. Fundamentally the Big Three represents an ideal; the belief in the power of education as a personal force in a man's life. The Big Three believes that college must give a man a sense of selfcontrol, an appreciation of beauty, a philosophy of life. Athletics represent but a small part of that ideal...