Word: prevailingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cudgel "not thicker than a man's thumb," and is kidnaped by Indians. This, presumably, is what readers of this kind of novel have been waiting for, but it is a long wait, and they are in for further dull stretches before virtue and justice at last prevail...
Concluded the bishops: "On this basically, religious [U.S.] tradition . . . secularism has [increasingly] exercised a corrosive influence . . . If this secularist influence is to prevail . . . such a result should ... be achieved by legislation . . . and not by the judicial procedure of an ideological interpretation of our Constitution. We therefore hope and pray that the [present interpretation] will in due process be revised...
...bishops see it, the First Amendment makes only two things unconstitutional: 1) "the setting up by law of an official church"; and 2) "discrimination between religious bodies." The founding fathers, said the bishops, were God-fearing men who knew that "national morality cannot long prevail in the absence of religious principle." They never intended to prevent "free cooperation" between government and organized religion. Any contrary interpretation is "an utter distortion of American history...
Only 75,000 books must be moved from Widener to Lamont. Should bad weather prevail at moving time, the underground tunnel which connects the two libraries will be used. At Princeton, the entire transportation job had to be done above ground, with weather a hazard during the operation...
...managing, and city editors) wanted it known that they emphatically disagreed with both the Thackreys: with Ted chiefly for indorsing Wallace, Communist Gerson and eight candidates of the Commy-controlled American Labor Party, and with Dolly for indorsing one of the A.L.P. men. The staffers wrote: "The impression must prevail, among this newspaper's readers, that those who write for it and produce it daily are, like one of you, for the triumph of Henry Wallace, of many Communist Party members and of many pro-Communists." They demanded that their letter be printed in full, with signatures...