Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told them passionately. "We cannot fail. The free way of life is at stake. . . . See people, convert them, take them to the polls. We must win. People ask me, can you take it? I can take it forever. There is no personal sacrifice I would not make to prevail in this struggle. Do not be afraid. Be soldiers unafraid in the fight for justice. America would not be the land of the free if it were not also the home of the brave...
...indoctrinates the youth of the country only with a desire to see the defects of our existing social order, is there not a danger that dissatisfaction will become so great that a spirit of hopeless futility will prevail? There comes a point when a man can become so convinced of the weakness of a structure that he is no longer interested in a sacrifice to preserve the foundation on which it rests...
...Bruce Barton. Still dissatisfied, they roared for more, more, hotter oratory. A man in the front row jumped up, tore a speech text in half, shouted: "There, that's over! Now tell us!" Puzzled, pleased, the shaggy man returned, and (on the theme: "If we do not prevail this fall, this way of life will pass") lit out with a short impromptu encore that stirred his audience to enthusiasm...
...cause of freedom in any public institution. From Manhattan the spotlight turned to Cambridge. Would the Corporation disallow the Russell appointment on the grounds of his immoral beliefs, no flimsier excuse than that used to prevent Browder from speaking? Or, if not that, would Dorgan and the Massachusetts courts prevail? The answer came only with Lord Russell's arrival yesterday. Harvard stands justified again in the eyes of her peers and her children...
...this war into a war of European revolution or we shall be defeated," wrote New Statesman and Nation last week in calling the democratic-minded of all countries to arms. "There is no halfway house. Against the brute force of Hitler no mere material forces or military power will prevail. But against the idea for which Hitler stands . . . the revolutionary idea can prevail. . . . With that war aim as our strategy, the defense of this island takes on a new form. Britain becomes the rallying point of revolutionary forces all over Europe and beyond its frontiers. . . . The Nazi offensive against plutocracy...