Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these reasons, Harvard welcomes and desires the broadcast possible geographical representation among its students, and also because it is convinced that the most invigorating conditions will prevail if all parts of the Union are well represented in all its departments...
...when he was elected President in 1932 did the Democrats win the New York Assembly. Save for last year's New Deal landslide, the Democrats had not won the Assembly in 22 years, because New York is so gerrymandered that they need more than plain majorities to prevail against Republicans. Day after last week's election which sent 82 Republicans, 68 Democrats to the Assembly, the Postmaster General remembered his history. His alibi: in spite of defeat, 500,000 more Democratic than Republican votes had been cast...
Emotional mass-meetings, with all the concomitants of hecklers, amateur witlings, and plain fools, can solve nothing. Emotions of War must be fought with emotions of peace, it is true, but peace, without a strong alliance with Reason, can never hope to prevail against the master of passion-lashers, the greatest demagogue of them all-the spirit of the parade and of the brass band...
...Their lawyer, Clarence Darrow, was twice tried, finally acquitted of jury tampering. Los Angeles, saved from a Socialist mayor, became more open-shop than ever and the U. S. labor movement went into decline. "Years of peace are assured," gloated General Otis, "because Liberty and Law will triumph and prevail." The Times eagle got its second perch in a new building on the old site and in 1917 General Otis died...
...sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...