Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future, "the church must be in the vanguard of the preparation for a just and durable peace. The great sacrifice of treasure and of life must not be in vain. We must build now the spiritual foundations for a better order of the world. This task is immediate and cannot be delayed...
...spokesman for the W.C.T.U., the Anti-Saloon League and some 100 other temperance societies. He has kneeling space in the House Office Building by permission of his good friend Ulysses S. Guyer, dry Congressman from dry Kansas, who rises occasionally on the House floor to tack (so far, in vain) a prohibition joker on to other legislation...
Individually, Bunks Burditt, last year's Freshman captain, was the star of the evening, playing a full 40 minutes and running up a total of 21 points. His center pivots and off-the-backboard play ran the big Jim Olsen and two of his reliefs ragged in their vain efforts to halt the hard-playing Sophomore. Defensively, Burditt held the usually high-scoring Dartmouth center to a lone field goal...
...small force still fought the invader. But it was a losing fight, a small-scale replica of the great battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
...taking the sacred name of defense and taking it in vain, the so-called business forces of the country have maligned and unfairly damned labor to such an extent that a misled public has forced Congress to pass these restrictive laws. Craftily playing on the stupid mistakes of a few labor leaders and skillfully using the powers of their allies, the press, the anti-labor forces of this country have succeeded in anathematizing the name of their enemies among the neutral portions of the nation...