Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreign students in the summer. Certainly there is an ever increasing number of American students in Paris every summer so one needn't be afraid of the stories that are told about high prices. As more students are exchanged between the American and French universities, so better feeling will prevail between the two countries. You know even though the French often try to overcharge Americans they usually prefer them to English. You Americans are so likely to be cordial and friendly, the English are sometimes a little stiff...
...fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities, many of which have recently taken steps similar to that now ordered at Harvard in relaxing the rigidity of classroom requirements, seem in general to be moving more and more toward the principles and concepts which prevail in the age-old universities of Great Britain and of the European Continent. --Boston Transcript...
...Locarno accords will be ratified by every country there represented. No statesman dare take the responsibility before history of dashing from our lips the cup of hope that Locarno has presented!" Continuing amid applause, he concluded, "I . . . hope that the same spirit of mutual understanding and mutual goodwill which prevailed . . . at Locarno may prevail among the powers now meeting at Peking [see CHINA] . . . [and establish] peace as firmly in the East as we hope we are in the course of establishing it in the West...
...President let it be known that he was trying to prevail upon his father to spend the winter at the White House to get out of the chilly drafts in the Vermont hills; furthermore that his father likes to have his name, John C. Coolidge, spelled with the middle "C", to distinguish him from the President's son John...
...still small voice arising from the fireside of every devoted home in the land seeking the things which are eternal. To such a country, to such a cause, the American Legion has dedicated itself. Upon this rock you stand for the service of humanity. Against it no power can prevail...