Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vain Businessmen Troublesome...
...under 15, who will get none under rationing.) But every coffee drinker knew that one cup a day represented a drastic cut. The panic buying went on, with no signs of stopping until shelves were bare. In some places anti-hoarders even began picketing the coffee queues-quite in vain...
...small, blue-eyed Norwegian tried to emulate his Nazi friend. First of the Quisling Cabinet to get a uniform, he copied his so closely from Goebbels' that in photographs it was hard to tell Lunde from Goebbels. Norwegians nicknamed Lunde "lille Goebbels," and knew him as a vain, ambitious, foolish man who had been an outstanding research chemist when he joined the Quisling Party...
...Cried the president of the Association of American Law Schools, Columbia Professor Elliott Cheatham: "Lawyers are as dangerous and ab horrent to tyrants now as they were when Erskine defended Tom Paine, or Male-sherbes risked and lost his life to defend Louis XVI from the revolutionary tribunal." In vain law schools have attempted to get army deferments for some of their students, on the grounds that lawyers hold many big jobs in the war effort (notable example: War Secretary Henry Stimson); a law course is good training for military command. Now most of them are resigned to making...
Shirt-sleeved technicians summoned from the far corners of the College, together with Network candidates, labored for three hours, leaving the floor littered with tubes and coils in a vain attempt to bring life to the dead transmitter...