Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flashbulbs popped at minks and orchids and opera hats. Mrs. James Dunn (wife of the Cinemactor, one of the leading players) arrived in a halo of roses and a black satin dress. White tie & tails mingled with business suits, and some sweater-bearing bobby-soxers craned their necks in vain for a look at Author O'Neill (he never attends his openings, and stayed in Manhattan). Ohio's Governor Thomas J. Herbert took his place in a box-and the play began...
...Tigers used a six-man attack at the close of the second period, taking out the goalie in a vain effort to narrow the three-point Crimson lead when Coulter drew a two-minute penalty. HARVARD (9) PRINCETON (2) Crocker rw Roberts Farrell c Van Dyke Feloney lw Elsaesser Preston rd Erdman Greeley, R. ld Arthur Yetman g White...
...destruction of the Catholic church, not a one has a better appearance and greater external holiness than the Anabaptists. . . . They call each other brothers and sisters; they use no profanity nor unkind language; they use no weapons of defense. They are temperate in eating and drinking, they use no vain display of clothes. . . . They do not go to law before judicial courts, but bear everything patiently, as they say, in the Holy Spirit. Who would suppose that under this sheep's clothing only ravening wolves are hidden...
Comes now Mr. & Mrs. Johnstone, with their scholarship for young Nishiyama, to make me feel that maybe-repeat maybe-the 3½ years that I spent as a prisoner of war were not in vain...
...period of months the Dean's Office has quietly prodded both the trustees and ex-editors of the magazine still in College in a vain attempt to start the ball rolling. The Crimson and the Lampoon have offered to help the magazine to its feet once again in any way possible, and at least one group in the University deferred indefinitely a projected magazine of its own when the news was announced that the Advocate was to be resumed "shortly." Still the exasperating void remains--in the face of the most favorable possible situation in both the advertising and circulation...