Word: fruitlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...care to call Saki the English O'Henry they have not in so describing him said all that need be. For his stories are so entirely different from anything else that has ever been written, his style and his climatic turn is so distinctly original that comparison is fruitless. The stories are short to a marked degree, they are packed into so few words that their ironic twist makes them jump out at the reader like Jack released from...
...theory, it is absolutely impossible to convey any of the salient points of 150 pages of Plato to an instructor by means of a five minute scrawl. These meetings were primarily organized to solve any difficulties that the student might have, but they have been reduced to infinite and fruitless arguments on the number of ultimate realities that exist or other such important philosophical problems. These discussions are usually worried along by laymen whose only qualification lies in a facile verbosity. This is not entirely the section man's fault for Philosophy A offers a moderately lucrative training ground while...
Blood. News that two months of parleying had been fruitless brought fresh blood spilling in Bombay Presidency, Gandhi bailiwick. Excited mobs again publicly manufactured illegal salt. In a scrimmage between natives and police at Bilashi two citizens were shot dead, six police badly wounded by clubs, brickbats...
...went to prison for contempt of the Senate. But the Bishop contended stub bornly, sometimes waving his crutch in anger, that this Committee had no authority to expose anyone's political activities. He read aloud Supreme Court utterances which, he said, denied all committees the right to make "fruitless inquiries into citizens' personal affairs." He protested: ''This appears to me to be an effort to attack me and to impair my influence exactly as the Wet and Catholic Press have been doing...