Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deficiency of iodin in the food and water taken into the body. Dr. J. F. McClendon, Professor of Physiology in the University of Minnesota, and Joseph C. Hathaway have completed an analysis of food found in goitrous and non-goitrous regions. In regions where goitre did not prevail the iodin content of the food may be as much as 100% higher than in goitrous regions. The investigators also analyzed the water from various cities in the U. S. It was found that the water with the highest iodin content had 18,470 times as much iodin as that with...
...receive our principles from the eminence of a soap box? Are the guarantees of free speech and of a free press to deliver us to malicious slander ? Is liberty to become license ? No, a thousand times no! Prohibition is the will of the people, and shall prevail. The Volstead Act will never be repealed...
...arose to impeach Warren Hastings on the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors there was no talk of the pedantry and dry formalism of debate; against the fire of intense personal conviction and the crusading zeal of a diligent investigator even the aristocratic aloofness of the Lords would not prevail. And when Webster's thunder was answered by the dying Calhoun through the lips of a fellow Southerner the nation hushed to hear the last words of the giant antagonists...
...prelude to the fight was a luncheon of the Citizens' Union. Olive M. Jones, head of the National Educational Association and Principal of Public School 120, New York, bitterly denounced politics in education. She said the merit system should prevail, even in the appointment of principals and higher...
...utterance sometimes frighten the timid. His spoken and written style is a faithful expression of his character. It is a style without applied ornament, without excess of kind, the utterance of a just and valiant man. Though strong-willed and self-assured, he sought to make his policies prevail not by the exercise of autocratic power, but by persuasion. Yet he never flattered, never played politics...