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Word: prevailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constitutional conditions are expected to prevail and relations between the State and Berlin are expected to improve as a direct result of the resignations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dictatorship Shed | 2/25/1924 | See Source »

...longer a game, it is no longer even a dangerous game in which strength and skill of individuals, of staffs, even of armies can prevail. It is scientific destruction. The Frankenstein created by man is triumphant, and man must kill it. When strong men rode out to meet strong men, face to face and sword against sword, war was little more to be condemned that a football game. It was Olympian strife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PACIFISM | 1/18/1924 | See Source »

...clock with a game with Cambridge Latin School on the Charlesbank rinks. The team was scheduled to meet the Noble and Greenough sextet just a week ago, but due to the lack of ice, the game was cancelled. There is a possibility that the same condition may prevail today and in which case the Harvard squad will be given a blackboard talk in the Varsity Club at 2.30 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS WILL CROSS STICKS WITH CAMBRIDGE LATIN TEAM | 1/16/1924 | See Source »

...stimulate such action, always subject to the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission. . . . Consolidation appears to be the only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system of transportation with an opportunity so to adjust freight rates as to meet such temporary conditions as now prevail in some agricultural sections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Message | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

...golden U. S. Spain and South America get their share of them, too. Thus the best talents in Germany and Austria are not to be heard in their native lands, and in France and Italy the same thing is true-though to a smaller extent. And inferior voices prevail in the opera houses. The opportunity for the moderately good American artist-the one not good enough for the high musical standards that now prevail in the U. S.-is obvious. The native artist cannot live on the prices paid to musicians, which, though enormous in figures, are drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Americans in Europe | 12/17/1923 | See Source »

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