Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...award is given each year to men who display the qualities typified by Richard Glover Ames '34, and his brother, Henry Russell Ames '38, who were drowned in a vain attempt to save their father, washed overboard during a trans-Atlantic yacht race...
They looked in vain. From the North Africa of the U.S. and Britain, a great sickness seeped through the world. Disillusion struck the peoples of Occupied Europe. Shame struck the peoples of the U.S. and Britain. For the sickness, disillusion and shame, the U.S. was chiefly responsible. Allied policy in North Africa was chiefly American policy-a fact advertised to the world before the fruits of that policy ripened. Then it was all too clear that, in the first brush with the Nazi enemy, the U.S. had retreated from its professed high principles...
...before a small group in Washington, suggested that he discuss his great, four-volume, just-finished masterwork Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided, "a little on the novel," and much on the fact that, in a world struggling for unity, "borderlines between the different spheres of human thought become unessential...
...Varsity seemed absolutely unable to cope with Yale's man-to-man defense. After bringing the ball up, the guards would lose the ball time and again, while waiting in vain for somebody to cut for the hoop. Yale's play was equally bad; against the Crimson man-to-man, the Elis had little to offer in the way of an offense, but their shots were dropping now and then, and Harvard was shooting hardly...
...Representatives has been lectured by Kansas Representative William P. Lambertson on a theme that engrosses him: that President Roosevelt's four sons (James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John) are getting preferential treatment in the armed services, have been coddled and "jerked" from combat zones. Republican leaders tried in vain to silence the Kansas sniper. Last week Democrats made a crushing answer...