Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace. On the other hand, the peace strikes of other years had been rendered futile by the ridicule and indifference of a Harvard community that considered the strike paradoxically militant. In 1935, the spring-feverish antics of Hitler-mustachioed students clad in boy scout uniforms easily outshone the vain attempts of the peace lectures...
Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...
...story has it that one night three long years ago, this intelligent bird, it may be seen reading a CRIMSON, in the picture above, just vanished. Lampy was aroused, he kidnapped an undergraduate, he raided the Bones Club at Yale, but all in vain, the Ibis was still at large...
Seven "favorites" in a field of about 20 mothers who crossed the finishing line in the Toronto "Stork Derby" four months ago, sighed with relief last week to know that their baby racing had not been in vain. The Ontario Court of Appeals declared valid the $500,000 bequest of eccentric Charles Vance Millar for the Toronto mother bearing most children during the ten years ending October...
...Peace and Neutrality. "They now believe," explained the New York Times's Frederick T. Birchall, that Franco "has enough . . . help from outside to enable him to become master of Spain." Said the Earl of Plymouth, patient chairman of the Non-Intervention Committee: "Our work has not been in vain. ... I am able to say it has been successful...