Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...destinies. Certainly the house plan has not as yet produced any great modification of Harvard life, and it looks as though the celebrated indifference of the bright young men of Cambridge might be the immovable body against which the forces of innovation and experiment will dash themselves in vain...
...vain Viceroy Lord Irwin tried to get to London some representative of the Indian National Congress or its spiritual leader St. Gandhi. These Indians, comprising the largest, most resolute, most highly organized body of Indian public opinion quietly boycotted the Conference, continued last week their non-violent demonstrations for Independence (see p. 21). St. Gandhi squatted placidly spinning in Poona Jail. Jailed also are some 30.000 Gandhites, including Jatindra Mohan Sen Gupta, "The Lord Mayor of the Second City of the Empire," Calcutta...
...himself internationally-minded, well might he plan that his donation should make internationally-minded businessmen out of Notre Dame students. His fortune, he pointed out, had started in 1899, in London, with the sale of $125,000 of patents for pneumatic hammers and drills, which he had tried in vain to sell in Chicago. His ability, he needed not to point out, had made him Wartime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, president of Emergency Fleet Corp., onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, president of the American Manufacturers' Export Association...
...about limiting sailors separately. With great acumen the French pointed out that if a nation [Germany, for example] were permitted to have an unlimited naval personnel she might, by the subterfuge of en titling her soldiers "sailors," build up an army of unlimited size. Where do we stand? In vain Count von Bernstorff argued for Germany last week that it would be better for the Com mission to admit failure and go out of existence than to continue to lull the peoples of the world into a false belief that their statesmen are advancing toward Disarmament and Peace. Said...
...such arguments were vain. Soldiers with fixed bayonets stood grimly around the House and Senate, which presently gave President Machado what he asked, made him in fact Dictator. By way of passing his coup off suavely Dictator Machado left Havana on a brief fishing trip, tried to appear in U. S. eyes as much as possible like President Hoover, returned to his Palace, waited. At the State Department "grave concern" about the Cuban situation was admitted for the first time by Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. But, quoting his patron and one of his predecessors as Secretary of State, Elder Statesman...