Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these days of constantly shifting opinion, when the one thing our statesmen, politicians, and publicists seem certain of is that they cannot tell what the morrow will bring forth when we turn in vain to our journals of considered comment for any solution of the welter about us, it is with something of relief that we pick up a magazine which may be fairly taken to represent the opinions of such a body of citizens as the graduates of Harvard University. Surely here, if anywhere, we may expect to find sanity and an enlightened conservatism. And we are not disappointed...
...world today discredited and without a real friend. This is the penalty of that betrayal of faith which is all concentrated in the repeated refusal to ratify the treaty of peace. So far as the United States Senate is concerned, the dead of this war have died in vain. NEW YORK WORLD...
Some wanted the treaty passed without change; some wanted it passed with mild, clarifying reservations; some wanted the Lodge reservations; but practically everybody has wanted it ratified and does want it ratified. At first, the administration Senators attempted to put the document through intact, but in vain. The nation clamored for ratification. Again the Democrats tried, with mild reservations, but the Republican group, holding the whip hand, insisted that their conditions be fulfilled without the change of a comma. It was a game of the whole hog or none. Still more concessions have been made by the Democrats, until their...
...best of the Magazine's contributors can be persuaded to turn their work into tamer but no less hopeful pages, if the Advocate and Lampoon can learn from the virtues as well as the errors of their short-lived competitor, surely its death will not have been in vain...
Today the average University man knows so much in a general way that he knows little particularly, especially politically. In consequence, he throws his energy here and there in a vain effort to land on the "side of right." He fears to attach himself to any cause which may be criticised adversely, and in consequence he often fails to grasp his opportunity for being a real factor in his country's political life. This group is not limited to the men in the universities; it reaches much farther and includes unfortunately the majority of the young men of the business...