Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning of the year, Dr. Sheffer supplied his students with a multigraphed outline of these rules, by memorizing which the more receptive of his students received passing grades in the final examination, which was highly logical of them and showed that they had not taken his course in vain...
Signor Mussolini does not read his history in vain. Having profited so much already by the study of Imperial Roman methods he is celebrating the third anniversary of his advent to power by delving into archives of the Middle Ages. He has brought the policy to light again, with rare appreciation of the spirit in which that official was originally created...
...time in the City of Denver, while I was Vice President, a big husky policeman kept following me around until I asked him what he was doing. He said he was guarding my person. I said: 'Your labor is in vain. Nobody was ever crazy enough to shoot at a Vice President. If you will go, away and find somebody to shoot, at me, I'll go down in history as being the first Vice President who ever attracted enough attention to have even a, crank shoot...
...Obviously the details of Prayer Book Revision thus to be presented to the Convention in October vary in importance. But through them all runs a commanding principle. This principle is reality. We are trying to avoid vain repetitions, the use of archiac words or phrases which, to the ordinary layman, mean either nothing or something untrue, and such length of prayer or praise in any one part of any service that the mind becomes numb and the worship ' of the heart ceases...
...Most of the critical reviews show evidence of sincerity on the part of the students in the task they set for themselves in coming to college. In every course they sought a certain object. Where they found it most abundantly, they lavished their praise; where they gleaned in vain, they confessed disappointment. The object so tirelessly sought was stimulation--the awakening of the principle of growth within themselves. Their interest did not bud spontaneously. Be the course what it might, they required more than bare facts to move them. Details which seemed to be given purely for their own sake...