Word: prevail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Summons. "Now that the storm of battle is clearing away, I hope I can prevail upon you to spend a night in Albany . . . and confer with me on the conduct and issues of the campaign in which we are all engaged together . . . soon."-Alfred E. Smith, last week, to Missouri's white-crested, Republican-flaying Senator James A. Reed. Senator Reed telephoned from St. Louis that he would go East directly...
Said Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, who regularly outsmarts Government lawyers: "Justice has been done. . . . It is time the Walshes, Nyes and Norrises should learn that prosecutions of this kind cannot prevail...
...Cheap money will prevail, and it is my opinion that the current tendency of tightening money rates is more due to an attempt to discourage speculation than to registration of any fundamental unsoundness of industry. With the banks continuously increasing their deposits, it is natural that these surplus funds will be placed in outside channels seeking good investment. "I do not share the opinion that the present movement of the stock market is due to any one man or group of individuals but is due to world-wide prosperity. . . . In Paris, London and Berlin good securities have had terrific advances...
...Boat", redacted after the manner of Ernest Hemingway, provoke more than a single smile. There is a goodly scattering of squibs worth repeating, and there are verses which have distinct merit. One finds, in short, plenty of evidence that the editors have a talent for making humor prevail, a sense of values, and the wish to carry on an enviable tradition. They would profit most, perhaps, by more widespread and varied co-operation--there are evidences that the burden of this issue has fallen heavily up on two or three. And such co-operation the College ought surely be able...
...Christ's Church not only must exist for all time, but must moreover, exist exactly as it was in the apostolic times, lest we are ready to admit either that Jesus Christ failed of His purpose or erred when He affirmed that the gates of perdition never shall prevail against His Church...