Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, an infant, delivered, appeared to be a corpse; there was no action of the heart, though the lungs exhibited a faint, spasmodic twitching. For 15 minutes Dr. Israel Kassow, attendant physician, worked in vain, suddenly remembered reading of how a pulmotor had been used in a similar case in Chicago. He seized a telephone, called up the Northern Union Gas Co., explained his need; an emergency pulmotor crew raced to the hospital with siren roaring. The pulmotor forced air into the apparently lifeless lungs, sucked it out again; the lungs responded, the pulse began to strike in the small...
Gentlemen: I have been a subscriber to TIME for a year. I thoroughly enjoy parts of it, but I confess I am disappointed in the general tenor of the magazine, its flippancy and its often vain attempts at cleverness...
...fault; the entire principle of censorship is an out worn heritage of civilizations dead and gone. Its most persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...
...caught it, passed it, caught it, spun it into the basket for the first score. They took heart when, at the end of the first quarter, Passaic led by four points. For the rest of the game, they sat with cold palms, dry throats, while their team fought in vain to avoid the overthrow which certainly menaced...
...facts before throwing brickbats," exhorts Mr. Allen; ah! indeed, but from whom are they going to get the facts? Everybody can not be connected officially with the University. It is clearly in the hands of the administration to make these facts avoilabel: and hitherto, interested observers have looked in vain for them, even in the President's Report. The result has been a foolish. Irritating situation, which Mr. Allen's article helps to relieve. Give all who are concerned the same information to which Mr. Allen had access, and all will reach his sane and reasonable conclusions. If his article...