Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although this declaration seemed to promise more stability at Hankow, it was significant that Mrs. Sun Yatsen, widow of the great Doctor, quietly retired to a suburb of Hankow last week and announced that she would withdraw entirely from the political activity there "until better councils prevail...
...iron and steel business. Twenty-six companies earned $265,138,052 on capitalization of $3,954,170,893?6.7%. In 1925 the percentage of earnings to capital was 5.61. U. S. Steel's rate was 6.65%, that of Bethlehem Steel . 5.54%. Such returns on investments are far less than prevail in other industries, Writer Hill declared, pointing to General Motors whose earnings last year were 30%?$186,000,000 on $634,000,000 capital...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...
Since 1890 a branch station has been operated at Arequipa, Peru, but as cloudy weather handicaps the observation in that spot, it has been decided to move to the high platforms of South Africa where better conditions prevail throughout the year...
Asked if he thought the Nationalists would achieve success, Professor Horn- beck replied: "The Nationalist idea will eventually, I think, prevail all over China. Whether the present drive of the Nationalist government, merely a manifestation of the idea, will go on to Pekin or not, I am not prepared to say. With the advance on Shanghai they have gained control of about one half the country. Much severer fighting awaits them, however, if they begin to advance north of the Yangtse River into the Northern home territory. As for the present movement making China into a formidable world power...