Word: vaines
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...wholly in vain that the high-strung leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Major Clement Attlee, barked like a terrier at St. Bernard Baldwin: "The Mediterranean has been abandoned to the Fascist State! The Far East has been abandoned to Japan! What is left? The policy of this Government has not brought us nearer to Peace, but closer and closer...
...reader of TIME for several years, I searched through your Oct. 12 issue for some report of President Roosevelt's visit to Elkins, W. Va., to speak and attend the Mountain State Forest Festival. He went from there to speak in Pittsburgh. I searched in vain, for it wasn't to be found. His special train was met by Governor Kump, Senator Neely and others. He was introduced to the crowd of at least 20,000 by Governor Kump and after his talk on reforestation he witnessed the beautiful coronation ceremony of Queen Sylvia VII. At least...
Many a patriotic citizen within & without the G. A. R. had tried in vain to stop the advancing tide. In 1882 Senator Hawley of Connecticut declared: "There are no men who will pass a severer judgment on excessive or unnecessary or fraudulent pensions than the soldiers themselves...
...have looked in vain to discover what additional information has been evolved from these presidential and gubernatorial gabfests...
...your issue of Sept. 7 under the heading Medicine, you devote a great deal of space to Dr. Feinbloom and his contact lenses, and wonderful too! But why the remark: "They are inconspicuous for actors and other vain persons...