Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct primaries in Wisconsin cost $802,659. They intensify a practice which has already begun to prevail under the convention system of conducting an elaborate preliminary canvass for nomination. Perhaps this is inevitable under present conditions, but anything that tends to increase the personal expenses of an election is unfortunate and perhaps the tendency toward self-nomination is not altogether beneficial...
...filarial tumors with prompt removal of the fibroid growths. The operations are simple and easily performed under local novocaine anesthesia. In case of an individual refusing to be operated upon, he should be isolated and not allowed to reside in a region where the Eusimulium concerned in the transmission prevail. Since the microfilariae do not disappear immediately following the operation, but often persist for a considerable time thereafter, (and in cases with no further detectable tumors,) periodic microscopical examinations should be made after operation to detect the number of microfilariae which persist...
...proceeds to set the girls and the ridiculous Helford aright, and, to their horror, takes the party into his own hands, captivates the first socialite of the town and puts the force of evil to rout with interesting resist. The good old virtues of sincerity, kindness, and tolerance prevail, but near obtrude beyond the veil of genial, exless, humor...
...remains to be seen whether the League of Nations, acting upon the petition of the various professors, can prevail on Mussolini to withdraw the oath. Fortunately, unlike the dictators of past ages, he cannot be wholly indifferent of foreign opinion. Expediency may persuade him if other arguments fail. The Spanish Revolution indicates that the hostility of universities is no negligible factor in the fortunes of absolutism. But in any case, the petition of the Harvard professors, together with the protests of various European scholars, are admirable instances of the internationalism of genuine scholarship. Whether successful or not, such a gesture...
...some sort of a business school is hardly justified in the present condition of the world." Professor Carver continued. "This I believe to be true for the majority of eastern universities, where emphasis on humanistic study and indifference to the conditions of a more or less remote outer world prevail. Without certain definite vocational aims a student at a college of this sort is quite useless in the present economical crisis...