Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today will mark the end of heavy work for the team. The usual Thursday pattern, with heavy emphasis on the kicking game, will prevail. Tomorrow, in the Stadium, the team gets a final buffing in its game outfits...
Past Radcliffe-Harvard athletic relations have generally centered around crew, and during the war a Radcliffe eight scored an upset win over a Harvard beat. The Misses Jaffe, Reed, and Trygstad were hopeful that this feat could be repeated, but expressed fear that if they lost, crew custom might prevail in which case they would be forced to give their shirts to the victorious Harvardians...
...Fields of Gilead? But to work out a settlement would take cooler tempers then now prevail. For one thing, both Jews and Arabs would demand proof, in fact as well as on paper, that their contending forces were too evenly matched for either to dispose quickly of the other. There would be fighting in Palestine, then perhaps a stalemate which might lead to a settlement...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...clear skies prevail this afternoon out at Dedham, the Crimson golf team will once again tee off against Boston College in a desperate attempt to play a long-postponed 18 holes...