Word: vainly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
During the same time period that Harvard searched in vain, Yale was able to construct a prominent Afro-American studies department were colleagues at Yale decades ago: Gates, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and Cornel R. West...
Them, of course, there's the phylum Pre-Journalistic. You can identify members of this phylum by their proclivity to use words like "proclivity" and make obnoxious observations about the world around them, in the vain hope that someone will find them amusing...
During the same time period that Harvard searched in vain, Yale was able to construct a prominent Afro-American Studies department, Hall says. In fact, three pillars of Harvard's now-renowned Afro-American studies department were colleagues at Yale decades ago: Gates, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of philosophy K. Anthony Appiah and Cornel R. West...
...recover some of the $47 million that Madison's failure cost taxpayers. That probe would almost inevitably delve into the alleged flow of money between Madison and Whitewater Development Co., in which the Clintons were partners with James McDougal, Madison's former owner. Thus the participants in the vain attempt to get Stephens could try to invoke the basketball rule: no harm, no foul. Or they could claim that when White House aides made remarks merely to express dislike and suspicion of Stephens (the aides make no secret they consider him a "right-wing zealot" out to get the President...
...survivor of a volcanic explosion that killed six scientists last year says his colleagues may not have died in vain. Analysis of data collected from the fateful eruption of the Galeras volcano in the Colombian Andes reveals patterns that may help predict precisely when an explosive volcano will erupt...