Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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They can't prevail...
...Newell Boat Club, owing to many absences, daily changes have taken place in all the crews. This, together with Vail's absence, has been a great handicap. As a result, hanging and rushing prevail throughout all the Newell crews. The first is better together than the others and should develop power, but at present the whole dean hangs at the full reach. The second Newell does not hang as much as the first, but the men lack leg drive and a clean finish. The most marked fault of the third crew is its inability to keep the boat steady...
...uttered often went to deaf, unheeding ears, but once his "follow me" entered the heart of Simon Peter on the shore of Galilee, and the lowly fishermen became the saint on whom a mighty church has based its authority, a rock against which "the gates of hell shall not prevail:" and once again his words came to John, and he too left the fishers' boats to become the apostle of God. Unstinted prodigality of gift, met now and then by the prodigality of return--this was the story of the life of Christ...
...close the Henley Regatta to Americans rather than raise the standards of training and watermanship. Taking into consideration the spirit of modern times toward progress and competition, this seems anything but a good plan, for with all their faults American methods are the methods that should in the end prevail...
DEAR SIR:--Realizing how difficult it is for an American, contemplating study abroad, to find out the conditions of study that prevail at Oxford, the American students of the University (about twenty-five) have organized the American Club of Oxford, for the purpose (1) of putting definite and pertinent information with regard to Oxford at the service of the intending student, and (2) of becoming sufficiently well-informed to advance any project on foot for adapting Oxford conditions to the needs of the American members of the University. To accomplish the first object, which is of more immediate concern...