Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agassiz's personal charm and earnestness gained her great triumph for the society in overcoming the opposition of the Committee on Education, at the State House, on Feb. 28, 1894. She received the major credit for effecting the incorporation of Radcliffe College, which the Governor authorized by his signature on March 23, 1894. Many honors were awarded to her and all Radcliffe felt its loss when she resigned the presidency...
With the latest Mexican revolution successfully quashed, Secretary of War General Plutarco Elias Calles returned in triumph to the arms of his President and the streets of his capital. Waiting on the Mexico City railway platform to greet him was President Emilio Portes Gil, three brass bands, 25 Mexican generals...
...triumph over, President Portes Gil resumed his more prosaic task of governing Mexico...
...such projects had already failed; $800,000 had been thrown away. Mr. Adams said that if he could have a six-month option, he would see what could be done. He consulted mechanical engineers, notably Dr. Coleman Sellers of Philadelphia. He cabled to Inventor Edison, who was having a triumph in Paris: "Has power transmission reached such development that in your judgment scheme practicable...
...same time the Freshman tennis players will be meeting Worcester Academy in what should prove to be an easy triumph in as much as the schoolboy record is anything but impressive...