Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what took him from hawking newspapers in Indianapolis to the top of the largest U. S. newspaper chain (now 25 strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer...
...cleared up, the literary merit of the work is often lost or must be passed without consideration. Thus it is well on into the second term before mere line for line interpretation is cast aside, and the more beneficial and interesting topics are discussed. The time now expended in vain efforts to conquer Joliet could be more suitably used for the earlier development of ease in translation. This would permit rapid translation from preparatory school methods of conducting the course to the more spirited and individual manner which characterizes the true college curriculum...
...went to war with Spain. Just before Roosevelt rode up San Juan Hill in Cuba, Captain Hobson rode boats around the island. The Spanish fleet cowered in Santiago Harbor. Captain Hobson took command of the coal-carrier Merrimac and sank her at the harbor's entrance in a vain attempt to bottle up the Spanish fleet. Spanish sailors caught Captain Hobson. They courteously offered him a swig of liquor. He refused it, took a gulp of coffee. The Spaniards kept him jailed for a month. Then Spanish-American fighting ended. Captain Hobson, 28, "handsome, tall and moral," returned...
...vain for the reviewer to twist and turn phrases in an attempt to catch the curious interest and charm of this autobiography of man and of nation. But he can at least promise that in reading it, there will be no waste and no regret...
Swearing-mad German seamen on the steamer Vogtland took many times in vain, last week, the name of their employer, H. Vogemann Co. of Hamburg. The, firm had just transferred the Vogtland from German to Panamanian register, informing her crew that the German minimum they had been receiving now could and would be cut 25% under Panamanian law. H. Vogemann Co. will also cut by 9% the number of the crew and will cut 10% from the social insurance provided for the crew. In all, H. Vogemann Co. will save 44% of the Vogtland's present running costs...