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Word: prevailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprints. He was good for under 54 seconds last year in the 100, but has failed to crack 55 this season. His 50-yard efforts also have not been startling this winter. Jim Curwen is sure to take both sprints handily, Eric Cutler and Frannie Powers will prevail over any Lion men in the distances, and Rusty Greenhood should have no trouble with Jack Keating of the Blue. In fact, Keating may take third behind Crimson's Chet Sagenkahn if the latter continues his consistent work on the springboard. The Columbia relay team, capable of 3:45, may prevail over...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Hal Ulen, Gloomy, Faces Columbia Natators in New York Tonight Minus His Four Mainstays | 2/25/1939 | See Source »

...cartoon depicting Chairman Ernest R. Caverly of the Brookline School Committee balancing three Charley McCarthys on his knees. The caption reads, "Curtain! Action! KERINS!!!" The cartoon was drawn by Charles M. Kerins, which fact opponents have pointed out as an indication of the widespread nepotism that will prevail if Kerins gets elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kerins Issues 5,000 Leaflets In Brookline School Campaign | 2/14/1939 | See Source »

...clock this evening in an attempt to submerge for the first time a team schooled by Harvard's Hal Ulen. Although they have competed in but one meet this season the Rhode Islanders are known to be strong enough to extend the Crimson swimmers to the limit, if not prevail over them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Hoopmen Tangle With Indians; Swimmers Meet Strong Bruin Natators | 1/18/1939 | See Source »

Nowadays, the record-breakers are to be found in the. Yale and Princeton squads, and Harvard, instead of producing a team of supermen, has turned out merely a group of very good swimmers. Whether Coach Uien can make his fairly well-balanced aggregation prevail against an equally well-balanced Eil squad or a star-studded Tiger team can only be discovered after the actual meets are held. The Big Three presents a trio of almost perfectly equal teams and the competition therefor will result in a Italic battle for the League crown...

Author: By Charles F. Pollak, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 1/17/1939 | See Source »

Just proving that RIGHT shall prevail against WRONG...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Self Yulegies | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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