Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot his to do with a charming, unscrupulous adventuress who runs afoul of a pair of detectives, falls in love with one and unintentionally kills the other with knockout drops, trics in vain to go to jail for her numerous misdeeds, and then deserts her inquisitorial lover on the likely grounds that she is not good enough for him. There is a very sage Swiss inspector who sees through the detective's transparent fabrication to cover the adventuress, and advises that they part. He is the only acceptable character in the play. For the others interact with a combination...
...M.I.T. sailed for ahead in a moderate but steady easterly wind, gaining 141 points in 13 races, Brown, Williams, and Dartmouth fought for second. The Harvard entries, however, outscored all except Tech on Sunday in a vain effort to recoup their Saturday losses...
...must admit that much of the vitality of America today is due to the constant infusion of new ideas, new energies, new slants on things. We may not choose to swallow any of the 'isms' whole, but certainly we are not so vain, nor so biggotted as to feel we can gain nothing from a philosophy which differs from our own. Grant Wiprud...
...previous day workmen had primed the pump in vain. For the pump handle had not been attached to the connecting rod, and no amount of priming could remedy such a fundamental error...
...Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with William H. Harkness Jr., but the latter died just before they were to start. Later Mrs Harkness tried in vain to get him to accompany her on her first expedition into the wilds of Tibet. Since he has a contract with the London Zoo, two of his pandas are likely to go there, while he will probably sell the others in the U. S. Chicago's zookeepers were exultant...