Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole of our present conception of modern history.. . . Our present view of modern history focuses attention on the rise of our modern Western secular civilization as the latest great new event in the world. ... If we can bring ourselves to think of it, instead, as one of the vain repetitions of the Gentiles-an almost meaningless repetition of something that the Greeks and Romans did before us and did supremely well-then the greatest new event in the history of mankind will be seen to be a very different one. The greatest new event will then...
...vaudeville gag told of a conceited counterfeiter who came to grief because he could not resist putting his own picture in place of George Washington's. Osaka's aging, ailing Counterfeiter Kanji Ikeda and his wife Yoshino were not vain, but they did arrange the serial numbers on their fake bills to read as messages to the son whose death in the war had turned their life to misery and despair. One of the Arabic numbers-797,423-read aloud in Japanese, meant: "Don't cry, honorable elder...
...world is filled with followers of false tacticians, who take the name of Marx in vain...
...editorial cost of TIME today (not counting paper, printing, distribution, etc.) is $1.48 a word. In 1923 many newspapers had an average editorial cost of a cent a word; their average is still well under a dime. TIME'S $1.48 is spent (sometimes in vain) in looking for significant facts that make the story "come alive"; in checking up on other news media, and on itself; in finding the event's right place in the procession of events...
...juvenile court last week the boys tried in vain to explain what had come over them. Said one: "We like the sound of falling glass...