Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...openly declared candidates. Most of the hesitancy is due to lack of knowledge both about the party and about the individuals in it. It was the same sort of uncertainty which made hundreds of Harvard men, nominally Republicans, cast Democratic votes in 1912 and 1916, in the vain hope of lifting the country out of this "political maze...
...stout stick was resorted to. One unfortunate youth, on being chastised by the Reverend Nathaniel Eaton, first President of Harvard, cried aloud for Heaven to sustain him while the Reverend Mr. Eaton plied an industrious birch. He was then given another thrashing for taking the name of God in vain...
...labors is admirable. The truth is, however, that the people of the United States have not yet the power or the energy to face industrial problems in a scientific spirit. That is the true lesson to be drawn from the deliberations in Washington. Otherwise they will have been in vain...