Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around the Virgin Islands prevail the old Danish tariff law (average rate: 7%,) instead of the U. S. Hawley-Smoot Act (average rate: 39%). Danish currency is likewise legal tender because the islands' bank continues to operate under its original Danish charter. The U. S. Congress appropriated $600,000 to put the black islanders back on the land, 90% of which is owned by a score of rich foreigners. Emigration to the U. S. has cut the islands' population in a decade by 15%, down...
Truex in a Parisian notions store, prevail upon him to double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked...
...general air of friendliness which seems to prevail among the students and the faculty" is what John Dewey, professor of Philosophy, emeritus Columbia University and William James Lecturer on philosophy during the second half year, considers the most important thing he has observed since he took up residence at Harvard, according to his opinion expressed yesterday...
...waiving of the customary formalities of negotiation and red tape in favor of the immediate action which was the earnest desire of the friends of both universities. Not only is the move highly welcome because it makes earlier engagements possible but also because it testifies to the sentiments which prevail...
...among other problems, the burning question of extra-curricular activities. The upshot of the discussion was that this phase of the college program demands constant adaptation to the great world of life outside the cameos, so that those activities duplicating communal institutions, such as, the press, art, and music, prevail over the non-vital projects found all too often in the academic sphere...