Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the 50,000 women wept as they cheered, and Herr Hitler himself seemed on the point of tears as he concluded: "When my day comes I will die happy that I can say my life has not been in vain. It was beautiful because it was based on struggle...
...have been paid a preliminary 20% by one bank, 55% by the other, stood to receive about $55,000 when the final distribution is made. Their loss would be about $39,000. Last week Superintendent Gerling, so popular by this time that the school board recently tried in vain to make him accept a $6,000 raise in salary,-* said his pledge of $25,000 was still good. By week's end he had received $2,000 in pledges...
Cambridge University today, indeed all universities, I suppose, are divided into the Herricks and the Miltons, to take the latter in his mood of "hence, vain deluding joys." This problem faces every freshman, and if his friends, his purse or his tastes decide for him, the decision must be made--whether to regard youth (which means university career) as a gift which must be enjoyed, or as a fateful threshold to life. Only the very lucky ones can have it both ways, can dance in the Spring and reap a catch crop harvest in the Autumn...
...which he staged. After seven months study of the law, he was a lawyer, wangled himself a job on Louisiana's Railway Commission, and began building up a political following. He made the Governorship in 1928. In short time an effort was made to impeach him, but in vain. He "reached" 15 Senators, enough to forestall his ousting, and from that time on no one in Louisiana could stand against him. After he had himself elected to the U. S. Senate, he refused to go to Washington until he could arrange to leave Louisiana bound and gagged...
...past four years Mr. Churchill has been slashing his own political throat, leading a series of vain attacks on Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin in an effort to split the party on the India Constitution Bill (TIME, Feb. 9, 1931 et scq.). This Gargantuan measure now having been passed, ''Winnie" Churchill last week abruptly returned to the Baldwin fold, pledged ''whole hearted" support to the Government and strove to bandage his self-inflicted political wounds by the clarion announcement: "Dangers larger and nearer than Indian dangers gather on our path. . . . We have to play our part...