For the next six years, before it was closed down once again by the Nazis and moved to Berlin for one final futile year, this small crafts college (of only 200 students at any one time) produced some of the most influential objects of all time.
Mr Mahuad, whose big achievement was to end a futile 60-year border dispute with Peru and cut military spending, claims he was the victim of army revenge.
Her court commissioned the volume of hours, or illustrated daily devotions, around the time she separated from her spendthrift husband, Arnold of Egmond, and began a futile 30-year effort to unseat him.
After complaining about a futile 13-year struggle to gain planning permission for a Waikiki project, a prominent local businessman smiled and said: "But you can't expect any more.
When he resigned in 1967 after a futile three-year fight to stave off devaluation of the pound, his career could have ended.Related items A moon among the lesser starsSep 21st 2000His skills as a political operator, however, ensured his rehabilitation as home secretary.
Like Woodrow Wilson, who sent Marines to Haiti in 1915 for a futile 19-year occupation, Bill Clinton believes it's possible to forcibly implant democracy in hostile soil.
But George would brandish a printout of Valentine's futile years in Texas, tote up the Mets' lack of discipline on the field and off, and sack Valentine in a New York nanosecond.
They stayed 10 futile years.
Mr Gross's predecessor as prime minister, Vladimir Spidla, quit last June after two futile years trying to herd the same bunch of cats.
If the new Senators ever tormented the Yanks or any other front-runner late in those 11 mostly futile years, it is not high up in civic memory.
Beyond this, residents here cannot comprehend why, after nearly 20 futile years, the Palestinian Authority (referred to in Gaza as hukoomit Ramallah – "the Ramallah government") is negotiating with Israel in the same manner as before.
