Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marion, Ohio, and Donald F. Melhorn and Crary Davis of Toledo, Ohio, used every reasonsable and honorable means to have this case dismissed and to end this tragedy which involved the reputation of one of the most gentle and beautiful characters I have ever known. Their efforts were in vain, and again I repeat the purpose of the plaintiff, to my mind, was most heartless in seeking to foist upon an unsophisticated people an unwholesome and dangerous book, the publication of which would only have the tendency of undermining the morals of this nation and to make legal marriage...
...full, authorized 100% but to employ "discretion" in every case, the bill passed first, second and final readings in both Houses of Parliament last week by majorities of from 250 to 400, its swift passage being so certain that many M. P.s did not trouble to vote. In vain Old George Lansbury, leader of the puny Labor Opposition, cackled: "There is no ground or occasion for this departure from the established custom of the House of Commons to take plenty of time to consider all financial matters." Less than 96 hours after the bill was introduced it was signed...
Publicity-wise Major Doolittle had made his first stop at Washington so the flight could be the first to link all three North American capitals in a single day. That visit cost him 40 min. flying time while he hunted in vain for fog-bound Bolling Field, finally put down on Washington-Hoover Airport. He stopped for fuel twice again, at Birmingham and Corpus Christi, Tex. The whole day's 2,500-mi. flight he described as "uninteresting" save for the thrill of landing his high speed plane in the rarefied atmosphere of Mexico City...
...graduate schools are high enough at present to ascertain that if a man can fulfill them, he should be able to make his way. It is evident that the laxity of the lower schools must be corrected first. Raising the requirements of the graduate schools would be only a vain attempt to rectify errors caused by faulty college curricula...
Since 1929. when Iowa passed a law making compulsory the testing of all cattle for tuberculosis, Iowa farmers have waged a vain fight to have the law repealed. Their objections real and fancied: 1) the State pays only part of the value of the condemned cattle; 2) the injection marks suggest that healthy cattle are infected, fail to identify those incurably infected; 3) it causes cows to have abortions instead of calves. Many farmers have also expressed dislike of Dr. Peter Malcolm, State veterinarian. Last spring 2,000 farmers marched to the State Capitol at Des Moines and demanded repeal...