Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most amusing features of the play is the masks worn by the characters. They reduce all players to a definite category; personalities are cut to a minimum and type characters prevail...
...increases between Yamano, who still desires Kimi, and his son, who can only resent without understanding his father's prohibition of further visits to her. In the end the traditional power of the family and the apparently hopeless future for Shigeo's type of liberalism in Japan prevail over the love of the young people, and instead of risking marriage they commit suicide together...
Playing host to the aspirants for the third class championship crown, the Woodstock Outing Club will hold the race on the Russell Mountain North Trail. After an all day snow fall on Thursday, the members have been using the run so that ideal conditions will prevail. It is expected that the present record time of four minutes 11 seconds will be eclipsed by the flying boards of the title seekers...
...editors of The Princetonian assume that the Bingham proposal will have the force of law and in their excitement have overlooked the difference in conditions which prevail in the Tiger's den and at Cambridge. The major premise that Harvard has abrogated an agreement in regard to practice dates is without basis since the proposal must be ratified before it is effective...
...inspiration. I should dread to transplant my happiness into other people; it might die in that soil. . . . Ah, I know why my critics murmur and are dissatisfied. I do not endeavor to deceive myself, nor to deceive them, nor to aid them in deceiving themselves. They will never prevail on me to do that. I am a disciple of Socrates...