Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said that just as Lincoln exhorted the people to carry on the work of the men who had given their last full measure of devotion in the Civil War to a just cause, we should not let the work of our soldiers in this present war be in vain. Lincoln, he said, tried the same thing in his day, and for his reward, he was shot. President Wilson has worked for the same ideals, and as a reward he has been broken down in health and frustrated by Senatorial pride. These ideals of world peace, which Wilson has worked...
...mission to rebuke the immorality, the material motives, the levity, and the lack of serious thought in the great city of his time. But he sought to occupy himself with other things, or, as the writer describes it, he tried to flee from the presence of God. But in vain, Even on the sea he could not escape; and at last his conscience, as we should say today, forced him to do his duty. At the second call he went to Nineveb. What was his mission there? Obviously to call the people to repentance. Never, as you may observe...
...equipment purchased. It is not too early for those in charge of providing for undergraduate athletics to turn their attention in this direction. Failing a proper solution of this problem, a great part of the work done each year by the Department of Physical Education will have been in vain...
...unqualified ratification of the document that promised to mean so much to the world. But it will be worse than a calamity if the treaty is refused entirely. Unless a League of Nations to minimize the possibility of future conflicts is created, the war will have been fought in vain. The treaty with reservations is certainly better than no treaty at all, and on the grounds of intelligent expediency the President should compromise with the Senate on a set of mild, mutually satisfactory reservations, no matter how superfluous they may be. Posterity would vindicate such a stand on his part...
...great victories for human freedom must not have been won in vain. They must serve as the instruments and the inspiration for a greater and nobler freedom for all mankind. Autocratic, political and corporate industrial influences in our country have sought, and are seeking, to infringe upon and limit the fundamental rights of the wage-earners guaranteed by the constitution of the United States. Powerful forces are seeking more and more aggressively to deny to wage-earners their right to cease work. Labor denounces these efforts as vicious and destructive of the most precious liberties of our people...