Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...developing as Soviet Russia threatened to intervene in the Spanish Civil War and stormy scenes among the diplomats concerned lasted for hours at a stretch in the British Foreign Office (see p. 22). To Buckingham Palace was frequently summoned the brilliant directing diplomat who is not always permitted to prevail at once in shaping the British Cabinet's foreign policy but usually manages to prevail sooner or later. Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office...
...lived on not because it had great wealth, for Harvard has been again and again most desperately poor. It has had, of course, no army, no material force of any kind to make it prevail. It has not been the ward of a great sovereign or of a munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe...
...what the men are doing on the road but for Kempton-who confessed quite unashamedly to playing these tricks on his employes-to lie in ambush for the drivers in this sort of way is absolutely repellent to any person who has any feeling for the principles that should prevail between master and servant...
...last year with its grant of $150,000 (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.). Advertised purpose was to provide opportunities for more young U. S. singers, to attract people who want to hear good opera but who have hitherto shied away from the formality and the high prices that prevail throughout the winter season. The first week was pronounced a definite success. Rehearsals were called for more productions: a revival of Gluck's Orpheus aiul Eurydice; the U. S. premiere of Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi...
...rules adopted in 1907 were very close to the rules that prevail today and provided for the award of Honors in some specific field other than in General Studies. Degrees cum laude were to be given in general studies, but summas were to be given only in "extraordinary cases...