Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That such ideas should continue to hold the allegiance of very intelligent men is distressing. Reform in the economic policies of the government cannot come about if such notions persistently prevail. Education is the only remedy; and the most promising aspect of the whole matter is that Mr. Duke's fortune will go to help dispel just such ideas as his. But neither in the schools which he is aiding nor in any others endowed by "big business men" will the truth soon conquer if the opinions of the endowers are allowed to control the academic machinery. "Capitalists" advance...
...Harvard indifference" is what men have been pleased to call this lack of unity, and Harvard men have been proud of it, or have feigned their pride therein. They have rejoiced in the lack of "rah-rah stuff," in the lack of small-town collegiate performances such as prevail at the more isolated of the well-known universities. They have been superior to any sort of excitement. Nothing has ruffled them. They have not bothered to care...
This prediction is in no way a cry of "sour Grapes" over last week's tidal wave. It is no disparagement of Princeton's undoubted power. If the Tigers play as they did in the Stadium, Yale cannot hope to prevail, but must trail by a two-touchdown margin at least. The chances are, however, in the light of past football history, that the Jungaleers reached their peak last Saturday and cannot maintain the breakneck pace they set in the Stadium...
...work is based on the assumption that visible forms of moisture in the air, such as mists, clouds, and fogs, are a form of colloidal suspension in gases and should be governed by the same general laws that prevail in colloidal action in liquids and solids. The sand tanks on the airplanes are flied with 120 mesh silica sand. When a cloud in found to have a negative charge positively charged particles are scattered at the extreme top; when the cloud has a positive charge negatively charged sand particles are scattered at the extreme top; and if the cloud...
...damn Fascismo, to lay the blame for the Matteotti affair at the door of the Government, to demand the abolition of the Fascist militia, to ask in veiled language for Benito's resignation, to state that they would not attend Parliament again "as long as the present conditions prevail...