Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this war into a war of European revolution or we shall be defeated," wrote New Statesman and Nation last week in calling the democratic-minded of all countries to arms. "There is no halfway house. Against the brute force of Hitler no mere material forces or military power will prevail. But against the idea for which Hitler stands . . . the revolutionary idea can prevail. . . . With that war aim as our strategy, the defense of this island takes on a new form. Britain becomes the rallying point of revolutionary forces all over Europe and beyond its frontiers. . . . The Nazi offensive against plutocracy...
...this time," declared Arizona's sesquipedalian Senator Ashurst. Sam Rayburn heard much of the same from his colleagues in the House, growled that "a great many of them, if there was a secret ballot, would vote to adjourn. ..." First sign that Congress' public sense of duty might prevail sprang from an even greater phenomenon: a fear among Congressmen that they were not taxing the people for Defense as heavily as the people wanted to be taxed. Testifying on a bill to broaden the Federal income-tax base, raise upwards of $1,000,000,000 a year...
...product is bound to win. . . . Democracy is the best form of government. It is worth dying for. We can realize it in this country if we will grasp the principles on which it rests and recognize that unless we are devoted to them with our whole hearts, democracy cannot prevail at home or abroad...
...Empire Sunday of Prayer (see p. 48). Accompanied by Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King George and Queen Elizabeth attended services at Westminster Abbey to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury assure them that "it cannot be the will of God that a rule of brute force . . . should prevail on the earth." Catholic Cardinal Hinsley's more vitriolic sermon at Westminster Cathedral, proclaiming that "there cannot be peace until by God's aid this hideous system [Hitlerism] vanishes from the world," was interrupted by a middle-aged woman quoting Scripture: "My house shall be called the house of prayer...
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