Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practicing Christian, a man who gets up at 5:30 every morning to read a Chinese Bible, a man who believes that right will some day prevail, this campaign is an international wrong...
...provide a maximum ten-day farmwork "holiday" for children 12 to 14, with special provisions for subsequent half-school, half-work days. Pay for farm-handing during this so-called holiday is set at 4d (8?) to 8d an hour for boys, slightly less for girls. Slightly higher scales prevail for older boys already working on the land as Young Farmers and in summer hostels...
...military logic does not always prevail, and Litvinoff has needed all his diplomatic skill, his shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...recent years, N.Y.U., unlike the University of Chicago, is stepping out because of plain economic necessity. Explained Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "For the past two years football has been conducted at a considerable deficit and the university cannot retain the sport any further under the uncertain conditions that prevail...
...States together until the Constitutional Convention. Advocates of Union Now thought it did not go far enough, wanted a union of peoples, rather than of governments. Josephus Daniels recalled his last talk with Woodrow Wilson, when Wilson had said: "The things we have fought for are sure to prevail . . . [and] may come in a better way than we proposed." Advocates of a revived, strengthened League of Nations hoped the United Nations would prove the better...