Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME, July 8). A dozen petty Tanaka office holders have been imprisoned by the present Liberal Government of Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi, on charges of corruption and bribery. Likewise jailed has been Naoyoshi Amaoka, the Tanaka president of the Board of Decoration, indicted specifically for selling "honorary decorations" to vain Japanese during the Imperial enthronement ceremonies last November and December. Sadly has the honest, industrious Seiyukai Leader watched his old ministry gather ill-fame. Tanaka, "the frank, magnanimous, indulgent and unreserved," as his countrymen frequently referred to him, found it hard to believe his "Seiyukai soldiers" could betray him thus...
Soviet Russia is one of the countries which glow translucently on an electrically-lighted earth globe in the office of a man in Cleveland. The man is not vain, but last week he looked with kindling pride at a point on the globe 270 miles east of Moscow, near Nishni Novgorod and between the Oka and Volga rivers. On that point he has pledged himself to build in the short space of 15 months a wholly new city for 25,000 Russians. The Soviet Government has agreed to pay him for his work $50,000,000-in dollars, in Cleveland...
Last week the Zionist Executive Council and the National Council of Palestine Jews issued in vain a call to "National discipline and calm behavior." Jew-baiting by Arabs and raucous rabbles grew worse daily. While Jews banded together to defend themselves against a mighty pogrom, events occurred with wartime rapidity...
Observers knew to a virtual certainty that the Trondhjemmers' protest will be in vain. The reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Bj?...
...vain stunt was this record because every mile produced revenue. Only a standing rule of the Interstate Commerce Commission that every 30 days a locomotive must be unfired, have its boilers blown, its brasses checked, prevented No. 4113 from continuing its endurance test...