Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have looked in vain in the last two issues of TIME for some mention of the Olympic Decathlon tryouts which were held at Evanston two weeks ago. Isn't it worthy of note that the three successful contestants in the tryouts were trained by the same coach, attended school in the same small town, two in the same institution, and that the first place winner broke the existing Olympic Decathlon record? It seems to me that Coach Brutus Hamilton of the University of Kansas has established a remarkable coaching record in training James Bausch, former University of Kansas athlete...
...vain Spanish Ambassador Salvador de Madariaga protested that the Lausanne Conference seemed to be "dictating" to the League Council. With glacial courtesy Sir John called the Spaniard "the watchdog of the constitutional rights and powers of the League," then steamrollered his own program through the Council, thus making himself Chairman of the Preparatory Commission...
...Vainly osteopaths pleaded that they would be barred from surgery, medicine, drugs and liquor permits. In vain was a quotation from Dr. Louis S. Reed's report to the Committee on the Costs of Medical regarded it with contempt. In recent years the progressive evolution of osteopathy, the modification of its 'theory,' and the elevation of professional and educational standards have led doctors of medicine to assume a more tolerant and less hostile attitude. There is distinct evidence to the effect that with the further elevation of osteopathic standards the osteopaths will be assimilated into the regular...
...vain the new Chancellor addressed an open letter to a high German Catholic prelate, attempted to explain that he had "accepted the President's call not as a party man but as a German." Sternly an official Catholic Centrist manifesto denounced "the frivolous intrigues of constitutionally irresponsible individuals." At Cologne the Party's newsorgan called the new Cabinet "a bad joke," added: "Of all the surprises which domestic politics have recently produced this is the greatest and most painful...
...receivership, announced, "The consequences of this decision must be to ease the Southern's own position." The receivership was the first in the railroad field since Reconstruction Finance Corp. was formed, first since the Wabash and Ann Harbor receiverships last December. The M. & O. had applied in vain for a $1,000,000 R. F. C. loan...