Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disappearance of old-time sentiment and laciness is very much in evidence. Seasoned veterans of former years have searched in vain for the one card that would just capture their real feelings. Instead, he has had his choice of Valentines featuring such endearing gifts as a rope, with the suggestion that it be worn around the neck...
...boudoirs, Niagara Falls, a burlesque queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped slipper and at the same time keep the treacherous bicycle bell quiet, makes a notable addition to the library of Hope classics in hilarity...
...funny," was the consensus of opinion of the staff of cryptographers, naval, military, amateur, and journalistic, who assembled in the CRIMSON news room last night and for three hours and 48 minutes belabored their brows and their pencils in a vain if dramatic attempt to solve the riddle of the code message in "Terry and the Pirates...
...like some young men of the stricken nations, you look to a false security--if you count on an easy victory--if you think of doing something but not too much for the war--you may face the saddest of all fates: you may die, but die in vain, because you do not die soon or well enough...
President Conant's report to the Board of Overseers is a sound and stimulating survey of the University in its first year of war. But undergraduates are still primarily interested in their own fate, not in the University's, and they will hunt through the report in vain for remarks affecting their immediate plans. But neither President Conant nor University Hall can or should make recommendations before the facts are all before them. Those facts have not yet come through...