Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry I. Chanin. The entire block bounded by Broadway, Central Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details of the proposed building have been announced but its 65 stories will undoubtedly rank it with the world's highest. Cost of land and building...
Rowing has heretofore always stopped a Tech in the middle of May, so that unless the oarsmen prevail on the authorities to allaw them to enter the Poughkeepsie regatta, it is doubtful if they would put off their studies to row Harvard...
Harvard Men Prevail...
...often judgments based on such opportunism prevail among statesmen, but England has still her champions of morality. Whate'er betide, none will be found stauncher than two famed scions of the historic House of Cecil. The elder of these two brothers, Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, winner of the Woodrow Wilson $25,000 Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924), resigned as British delegate to the League of Nations when he came to feel that the Empire was not fulfilling its whole moral duty to the League...
...example of his advice is: treat intuitions tenderly. "The moment we feel their presence, it is as if we saw the ripple over Bethesda and we ought to know that our chance is near. Silence, both exterior and interior, should prevail; we ought to be attentive but not eager or, above all, curious. The beautiful visitor is like a butterfly, no longer the same when caught...