Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vainglorious creature racked by gout and asthma, dyed and corseted with a curl on his miserable old forehead kept in its place all night by a bandana handkerchief!' . . . Kant, while living in Holland, lived in 13 different places and changed his abode 24 times; Voltaire [was] inordinately vain, unscrupulous, once a forger and seemingly ever tempted by suicide. . . . William James often thought of suicide...
...some 20 years thereafter Engineer Cooper tried in vain to obtain backing for his tide-harnessing project, to win the consent of Canada and the state of Maine. Then one day in 1933 he explained his plan all over again to Franklin Roosevelt. The President, still enthusiastic, was now able to be of real help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt...
...Congress must first authorize their construction. President Roosevelt had neglected to ask Congress for such authorization. Therefore last winter the House declined to appropriate funds for Quoddy and the Florida Canal when the War Department Appropriation bill was passed. In the Senate Florida's Senator Fletcher fought in vain for his Florida Canal (TIME, March 30). Quoddy, however, was not even fought for Maine's Republican Senator Frederick Hale quietly told the Senate that so far as he was concerned he did not favor any appropriation for Quoddy in the War Department bill; if President Roosevelt wished...
...insurrection fails because of the negroes' superstitions. Rain and lightning and thunder are responsible for the loss of many of Gabriel's followers, as well as (partly) for the defection of Ben. Against superstition and treachery even the gods contend in vain, and when Gabriel goes down in defeat he goes down with an undeniable grandeur which even Mr. Bontemps can impart to the reader...
...Paso Grande Bridge a dynamite explosion slapped the locomotive and tender against the bank of a 40-ft. ravine, tumbled two wooden sleeping cars to the ravine's bottom. Oil from a tank caught fire and flames engulfed the wreckage. A man pinned in the debris pleaded in vain to be shot as the conflagration approached him. Final count: 13 dead, 18 injured. Investigators discovered 200 yards of double wire leading from the bridge to a detonator...