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Word: triumphant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Picture my feeling of emotion!" gasped Orator Hitler, almost suffocating with joy, and U. S. listeners heard him, via short wave, broadcast a triumphant reference to his "divine commission." Benito Mussolini had already received a gushing letter Friend Hitler had dispatched by air to Rome, and now the Führer telegraphed to the Duce, "I shall never forget this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Hitler Comes Home | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...stayed there. Breezing down the stretch, War Admiral won as easily as everyone expected. First-prize of $49,550 brought War Admiral's lifetime winnings to $231,625-some $17,000 less than Man o' War's and $12,000 more than Seabiscuit's. Triumphant over his arch-rival in the money-winning race, War Admiral had yet to convince racing fans that he can beat Seabiscuit on the turf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT: Big Red Dynasty | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...tries to crush the rugged old man and build his own fortune on the ruins. Thus in this play Howard seeks to show how Mammon rules supreme, and how even the highly respectable Protestant ministers are his priests, but at the same time he insists upon virtue triumphant in the grand, unblushing style, and pits two heroes, a stout old man and a simple, good-natured youth, against an unconscionable dastard...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Boasting of the only alto glockenspiel of college bands in the East, the Tiger band is going to be augmented by two Aida trumpets borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera House. Heralds with the proper ceremony will blow a triumphant fanfare with these trumpets before each Princeton game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN-EYED TIGERS DESIRE BAND EQUAL TO CRIMSON'S | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...concert will open with a Bach cantata, "Christ Lag in Todesbanden." From beginning to end, the themes in this work are all based on the soprano part in the final calm and triumphant choral. Sections of this soprano melody are developed into full-length choruses that tell of Christ's death and resurrection at the beginning of the cantata, and, in the middle, of the horrible struggle between life and death. The work is essentially dramatic; and Mlle. Boulanger's interpretation, though perhaps a bit too a la francaise, brings out the drama to the full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

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