Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...oars alone can ne'er prevail to reach the distant coast...
They can't prevail...
They can't prevail...
...officer are greater under the Harvard rules than under the Carnegie Foundation rules, the retiring allowance will be computed in accordance with the former. If, on the other hand, the rights of an officer are smaller under the Harvard rules than under the Carnegie Foundation rules, the latter will prevail...
...Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...