Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...standing army of more than half a million men. While the Greco-Turkish impasse at Lausanne lasts, Yugo-Slavia is keeping an army on the Greek frontier. If hostilities should commence, the other two members of the Little Entente might be dragged into another Balkan War. It is vain to point out that this is a result of the Balkanization of Central Europe...
...admitted, has a very seductive ring, especially after considering the success of certain elements in the west. But it under such a name students can actually be assembled to attack problems--not personalities--in a clear-minded unbiased, way the League of Nations will not have lived in vain and "non-partisan" will stand for more than a slogan with which to entice the politically sentimental...
...mysterious American collector, who has withheld his name, purchased Augustus John's famous portrait of Madame Suggia for the sum of $50,000. A vain effort was made to raise this sum by subscription to purchase the picture for the British nation. However, the purchaser is graciously permitting it to be hung for a while in one of the British National Museums before transporting it to America...
...city of Canton is reported to be safe and peaceful, but heavy fighting is in progress on the Canton river, where Sun Yat-Sen troops tried in vain to cut off enemy reinforcements from the Kwangsi province...
...only for disease and weariness that new remedies are being found. Science has discovered a new drug which it believes will raise the dead. Adrenalin, as the drug is called, was given as a heart stimulant in a vain atempt to save the life of President McKinley; and recently injected directly into a heart which had stopped, it restored the customary beating...