Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans, while the most friendly people in the world, are too much concerned about each other and though not personally are nationally vain. They would rather hear themselves abused than not discussed, which inclines one to imagine that they are suffering from the uneasiness of the nouveau riche . . . in spite of their generosity and friendliness I was aware of an undercurrent of illiberalism and ferocity which amazed me . . . There is perpetual interference with personal liberty that would not be tolerated in England for a week...
...anyone with even moderate knowledge of ecclesiastical history. . . . And may God grant that this commemoration help indeed, as is Our heartfelt wish, to bring about that those Oriental peoples who ar still held far off by schism may lay aside their prejudices and turn their hearts, and not in vain, towards communion of Faith with...
...America going to renounce its cardinal principle of freedom of thought and religious belief? The hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...
...Columbia. The race began. Pennsylvania led. Yale was second, rowing with power but somewhat raggedly. Columbia bided her time. On went the shells. Yale sprinted, passed Pennsylvania. The finish came in sight. Pennsylvania, it was clear, was beaten. Columbia? Her men, far down the course, thrashed the water in vain. Yale...
...turns hopefully, imploringly to Dame Science who is never loath to promise whatever one pray ask. With culinary laboratories where he can eat on the run, with strychnine and other things not to be mentioned to stimulate exhausted brains, she thinks to wait him over the great divide. In vain the student cries that they are not enough! Could be but do without sleep for three weeks, perhaps held make the grade Dame Science empties her pockets all to no avail, for she has not yet compounded tablets or synthetic sleep...