Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permission to remain a month in San Antonio to wind up his personal affairs before retiring like a bad schoolboy to his home at Columbia, S. C. In Washington Senator Byrnes and Representative McSwain, head of the House Military Affairs Committee, both of South Carolina, protested vigorously but in vain to Secretary Dern. So did Representative Blanton who got General Hagood permission to testify "freely." Republicans in the Senate made a political holiday of the case. Senator Metcalf called it "typical New Deal terrorism," asked for a Senate investigation. Senator Robinson, as angry as only that Democrat leader...
...going after that metal." He hit on the idea of finding a solvent for the oxide ore, bauxite, then electrolyzing the solution, sending oxygen to one electrode, pure aluminum to the other. After graduation he cooked indefatigably in his back yard, trying dozens of solvents in vain. His crucibles were shaky, his batteries uncertain. Finally he found that electrically melted cryolite, a mineral from Greenland, would dissolve the ore. Then he tried to electrolyze it. In clay crucibles it was no go. He substituted carbon crucibles. In the bottom he found a handful of gleaming aluminum pebbles. That...
...student from Yugoslavia, one David Frankfurter, who admitted frankly that his purpose was "political murder" (TIME, Feb. 17). What this meant to Adolf Hitler the emotional Realmleader told all Europe in a hastily arranged broadcast. Bawling at the top of his lungs, he cried: "You did not die in vain, Wilhelm Gustloff! My dear Party Comrade, what your Jewish murderer did not foresee was that he prepared the way for an awakening of millions and millions of Germans to a truly German way of life. ... In every office will hang Gustloff's picture, in every store! My dear Party...
...town editor and head of a normal family is at least as good as he has been in character parts and his supporting cast is equally fine. Wallace Berry is the delightful, warm hearted semi - alcoholic who has asked Aline MacMahon to marry him for 18 years; only in vain, unfortunately, because in spite of her love for him, she cannot forgive his trip to New York those many years before and his wicked female companions while there...
Glorious peace or vain regrets...