Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema trade paper last week reported that United States Steel Corp. had loaned $2,000,000 to Tiffany Productions, Inc. (features). Commentators sought in vain for an explanation of this fantastic story. The only link between the two companies is remote: Leonard A. Young, president of Tiffany, is also president of steel-buying L. A. Young Spring & Wire Corp...
...Temple of Concord. On one dark night a man stole in and etched the brother's common epitaph for all the world-"Out of discord comes Concord." They were honest and brave men who died for the principles they so staunchly supported. But they did not die in vain for they sowed the seeds of democracy which was eventually to bring down the foundations of the republic amid the far off thunder of the Triumvirate. Today at 9 in Sever 18 Mr. Hammond will enlarge greatly, the Vagabond hopes, upon this sketchy picture of the two brothers...
Like many another British nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going...
...years at Yale learns to live more richly and more happily, he has not spent his time in vain. The measures of success is not a lot of canned knowledge, but the ability to get out and do something. The social side of his life at Yale is often more important to his development than his classes." It is essential that this point of view, one recently expressed in an editorial in the Yale Daily News, be fully grasped with all its implications...
...that is, the Athletic Association has voted to suspend formal practice, the object being to reduce the emphasis on football. The News, much to the anoyance of those who oppose 'retrenchment," has frequently clamored in the past for just such a suspension of formal practice, but has clamored in vain...