Word: vaines
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...ordered him back, beat him over the head, drove the car on to Christiansburg, Va., where he escaped. Passing motorists carried Latham to a hospital where, in a dying state, he made his will before being placed on the operating table. Bloodhounds sniffed along the hard Virginia highways in vain...
Next morning President Hoover summoned Indiana's Senator Watson, Senate Majority Leader, to breakfast. They talked tariff, puzzled out vain stratagems to speed up the Senate's action. Back at the Capitol Senator Watson spoke: "The President thinks that this [tariff] legislation should be disposed of quickly in the interest of the business of the country and in order that other matters may be brought before this body for solution." Up rose Mississippi's Democratic Harrison to inquire sarcastically of Senator Watson just which rates the President favored?the high rates of the Old Guard, the medium rates...
...Hallowell '32, B. E. Estes '32, and R. C. Aldrich '31 were the three Crimson runners in the mile, with Huckins of Dartmouth, and Hendricks and Martin of Cornell. Martin took the lead and tried in a vain attempt to draw the Crimson and Green runners out, but merely burned himself out. At the end of the eighth lap Hallowell went into the lead and was never again headed, finishing a good 20 yards in the lead. The real contest was between Estes and Hutchins, with the Crimson man after fighting his way into the lead on the last...
...Purple basketeers breaking a long line of defeats, by taking advantage of its height and the opponents' light weight tipped the ball into the hoop time and again while the Crimson dwarfs stretched in vain. Driscoll, high point man, with 16 points to his credit, standing head and shoulders above the Harvard guards, had only to stand under the basket and knock the ball in as it bounced off the board. He sank fouls when Rex and Burns tried to keep him down...
...have to choose between the Labor Party standing for the interests of the common people and the reorganization of society, and the Conservative Party struggling to conserve the possessions of the rich and the maintenance of the old order. Against that inevitable tendency the Liberal Party dashes itself in vain...