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Word: vainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...

Author: By Yeoman E. A. king, | Title: ARMY ELECTRONICS TRAINING CENTER and NAVAL TRAINING SCHOOL (RADAR) | 7/20/1943 | See Source »

...fought dishonesty, injustice, oppression and selfishness. Above all, he taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. War is only a means to an end. . . . This total warfare of ours against the evils spawned by the burgeoning greeds and lusts of the Axis powers will be in vain, unless we can win the churches to a new crusade for the spirit exemplified by Jesus' Good Samaritan. World justice and human welfare, rather than comfort and wealth within one's own nation, must be the Christian goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 21, 1943 | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain how far the opposition had spread. But Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had not died in vain. London got hold of the text of the leaflet which cost them their lives and broadcast it over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Not in Vain | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Blacktrackers' Magic | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...Vain Bosses. American women are the victims of "endless competition" and their own vanity, are incapable of "spiritual submission to or harmony with a man." Usually pretty enough to afflict a visiting foreigner with the "buck ague," they rarely have enough character to be beautiful; they are their husbands' bosses, but are incapable of passion or intimacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Love, Eh? | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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