Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sensationalism and garish appeals to the hyphenate have been tolerated too long in our newspapers. Weeds will not die as long as they are nourished; all attempts at assimilating our foreign population will be in vain until the roots of hyphenism are loosened from the daily press...
...human slide on which to project the man with the ball for 1 and 67-100 yards on each down; or whether on the other hand the defence could upset this human slide and turn it into a human wall against which the alleged runner would be hurled in vain by his team-mates. The result of the plays would have been exactly the same if the runner was on wheels...
Heliotropic Washington bends toward Senator Harding, and the staid Senate is fluttered. Never before has a President been selected from its membership, and its experts on procedure thumb in vain the records to get instruction as to the proper sort of reception...
...might be inferred. The meal at which the greatest amount of fraternity is evidenced, is breakfast, where the fellow who, by noon is usually groomed to perfection, rushes into the hall a half second before the door closes with his shoes untied and his hands fumbling clumsily in a vain attempt to got a collar and tie on. No mention need be made of the condition of his hair. Any one who has lived in the freshman dormitories knows well this hectic scene...
Politics will continue to be a sham battle in the United States, if in no other European country, because our powerful men are concerned that the boast of thought and change to be irresistible be proved as vain as their economic control renders the service of the state and the worship of God. JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT ocC. October...