Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must prevail when the air odds are 36 to one (the odds of roulette, without any zeros), if only by blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped on Helsinki, the Russians threatened mass bombing with 800 planes if the Finns did not capitulate at once. Should that come...
George Carens of the Transcript: "If experience and power are to prevail tomorrow, Penn will subdue the Crimson. . . . It would be unwise to climb out on a limb and predict certain victory for the Red and Blue, but the Philadelphia visitors have fine poise and spirt...
...prevail over battleships, planes need not sink them. In fact, in a battle line at sea, a sunk ship is less troublesome than a disabled one, which must be escorted home. To disable a battleship, an air bomber need not score direct hits. Bombs landing beside a hull may do more damage, especially to steering mechanism, than direct hits on an armored deck. Major Al Williams, U. S. A., a vociferous champion of the airplane over the battleship, who believes the German Air Force (which he inspected intimately last year) can knock out the British Navy, says: "A pure...
...brief, non-committal, obvious. It shows plainly Mr. Landon's embarrassment. But it contains no hint of a willingness to cooperate. One fears that, Mr. Conant notwithstanding, the debate will go on--bitterly, irrationally, without inhibitions. The only hope of thinking persons is that eventually reason will prevail on a national scale, and that the decision thus made will be reflected in Congress over the adroitly dramatized objections of an irresponsible and misguided minority...
Lord Fisher's biographer represents the Germans as scared to death in 1914-18 that the British would force the Baltic Gate, which they considered weak. He says they derided the British Navy's stupidity for not attempting it. It is not likely that such sentiments prevail now in Berlin or that a British naval attempt at the Baltic will be seen in World War II. Though the German Navy is this time far weaker (42 ships v. 254 for the Allies), this time the Russians (with 28 more ships) cannot be counted on to join a march...