Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human eye does not function to its best advantage in the dark or in looking at a fairly well illuminated object when the eye itself is surrounded by darkness," according to Mr. Henry. "There should prevail as high a degree of general illumination as may be consistent with securing clear and easy vision of the picture...
...with 265,564 students in them? What more could he asked But it appears not only that Dr. Abraham Flexner, secretary of the General Education Board, asks a good deal more but that, in his view, Americans do not value education, and that conditions favorable to scholarship do not prevail in this country. That is to say, we have the schools, but they do not realize their potentialities. And one reason, Dr. Flexner says, is that we do not pay successful educators salaries that will enable them to live decently. In this country, a man or woman is paid what...
...opening of the first stanza set the fast pace that was to prevail during almost the entire game. Little team play figured in either of the opening scores, but neither poke was from midice, and they were both of the variety that look easy from the press box but which look hard from in front of the net. The Crimson sextet was by no means forcing the play at the time. Morrill being bombarded by a barrage of Green drives. Captain Hardy's stick was by far the most effective in the visitors' line-up and twice he found...
...dealt conciliatingly with Vice President Charles F. Johnson of the Botany Mills. They agreed that the workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than 7,000 strikers immediately rushed to register for work...
...same magazine, Edward Martin from the editor's easy chair takes stock of the personal qualities of the great educator: "A splendid man; tolerant, generous, bold: not always right, but majestic in the steadiness of his effort to know the truth and teach it, and make it prevail...