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Word: vainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Several homebound B-29s made emergency landings on Iwo Jima's hastily repaired southern airfield. The Marines who had given their lives to win Iwo had not died in vain. Only two B-29s were lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Firebirds' Flight | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Being not vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 12, 1945 | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.-Psalms, 126:1 (Douay Version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: With Dismal Regularity | 3/5/1945 | See Source »

...anything which most wives and sweethearts want is assurance that their waiting, their nightly letter writing, their valiant dreaming will not be in vain. The precious years are rushing past. Said the women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Think of the Moment | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Americans, there was a special recognition of certain precepts which Americans have always held dear, and which would reassure many a citizen that World War II was not being fought in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Moment In History | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

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