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Word: prevailing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...riotous time in the history of the evangelical army. In a way it was a day of victory for the Generals Booth and their followers. Statesman John Bright later wrote Catherine: "The people who mobbed you would doubtless have mobbed the apostles. Your faith and patience will prevail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: I Was a Stranger ... | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

...statement, prepared by Union member John O. McCormick, teaching fellow in English, held that "such an oath is obviously out of keeping with the intellectual atmosphere that should prevail at Harvard or any other university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers' Union Hits NROTC Loyalty Oath | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

...devise a theology which may gloriously unfold like the Summa of St. Thomas!' Of course, there is nothing to forbid all this; there may exist very good cause to do it all; but nothing, nothing at all for its own sake. In it all, the one thing must prevail: 'Proclaim the Gospel to every creature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Credo | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...these clouds gathered, and by their darkness showed grave indeed might be the consequence, should the factions among the multitude prevail when the two contestants, each a champion himself, met on the field of challenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everybody Up | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...good cheer, my people, for it matters not which of these two shall prevail; for they are indeed one in courage, and in perseverance, and in The Will-to-Win; mighty are the skills, and crafty are their managers, even to the same degree; and where the one boasteth Page, the other hath Rickeys, even to the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Everybody Up | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

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