Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...main problem this fall was to find space on which the teams might play. One day last month there were 133 men playing on Soldiers Field, every available ground being occupied. This situation will probably prevail most of the time next year...
...done by collegiate holders of the Ph.D. degree, older men, who were trained to research, and who continue to follow their bent, in spite of many discouragements. These men are constantly producing valuable discoveries, and I think that there is enough historical inquiry made under the conditions that now prevail...
...been difficult for the newspapers to prevail upon Mr. Hammond to preside. His interest in education, early stimulated by friendship with Cecil Rhodes (scholarship) whose consulting engineer he was in South Africa, has lately quickened. Some months ago he addressed "all June graduates" by radio on the subject of "Success...
...encourage this youthful insurgence. The champion was grim. He did not fool at all and actually managed, with terrific serves and drives that swish faster than any others on this earth, to take a set, the second. But even his efforts, and those of the doughty Chapin, could not prevail against the gleaming, electrical teamwork of Richards and Williams who, rushing for the net after every serve, volleyed their way to the doubles championship of the U. S., 6-4, 6-8, 11-9, 6-3. Elizabeth Ryan and Jean Borotra took the mixed doubles title; Major A. J. Gore...
...case at Harvard one may be certain, if one believes that the administration. In admitting this new branch of mental discipline so establish and maintain high standards that this particular curriculum has the respect of the student body. And one may certainly expect such high standards to prevail. Nor is the study of naval science so near the correspondence variety of pseudo learning as one can imagine...