Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...However much any group of undergraduates may disagree with the opinion of the President of this University, there should prevail an ordinary regard for the institutions and their representatives, and I deeply regret that such an unpleasant incident occurred when we were your guests last Saturday...
...large galaxy of featured speakers will discuss the effect of national defense on prices and unemployment; the wage policy that will prevail during defense preparation; the limitation of civilian consumption; the governmental control of the distribution of resources; and the possibility of inflation...
Arthur Sampson of the Herald: "That strong Crimson defence can stop anything the New Haven boys are capable of throwing against it. Harvard should prevail, 7 to 0. I'll be watching Spreyer and Peabody for Harvard; Bartholemy, Seymour, and Burnam for Yale...
...letter noted that, as "chief executive officer of an institution established to educate young men and women for intelligent citizenship in a democracy," a university president has the responsibility of creating "a university atmosphere in which democratic procedures and attitudes prevail...
They did not blame the administration for its previous inactivity, since the American people believed in the "protective power of the seas" and "had a rather vague conviction that somehow or other the kind of wickedness we have been observing would not long prevail...