Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like all other prohibitive institutions it places too great a weapon in the hands of prejudice. After all that had been said of the O'Casey play it seems rather a pity that one man, and it really was one man, should have been able to prevail over the desires of a considerable, intelligent population. Boston's prohibitors permit Minsky to run without let while they ban Strange Interlude and Within the Gates. They cavil at Rabelais and Joyce while smiling tolerantly (and probably reading themselves) Smokehouse Monthly. The Specialist perhaps had a bigger success in the Athens...
...commentary on the lethargy, or, as a German might put it, "weltschmerz," prevailing among undergraduates on the subject of sport, many of whom have been richly endowed by Mother Nature with the strength to fill the gap, and who need only exhibit a scintilla of interest to discover that they would richly enjoy these sports and would contribute at one and the same time to their own physical well-being and their college's distinction, that such a condition should prevail, and I think that there are many other undergraduates who felt the same way about it. S. T. Orton...
...There is a school-I had, inaccurately, almost said 'of thought,'-in NRA that has prevailed since I left it which insists that any provision against predatory price slashing is 'economically unsound' and 'unenforceable and 'rendered unnecessary by the wage-fixing rules.' I fear that they have prevailed and that new NRA legislation proposed by the Administration will follow this so-called view. It is a ghastly paradox and I will fight it with all that I have to give. Here we have self-styled reformers echoing the shibboleth of some...
...have been witness of grave defects and abuses in the capitalist system," continued the Speech from the Throne. "New conditions prevail. These require modifications in the capitalist system to enable that system more effectively to serve the people. Reform measures will therefore be submitted to you as part of a comprehensive plan designed to remedy the social and economic injustices now prevailing, and to ensure to all classes and to all parts of the country a greater degree of equality in the distribution of the benefits of the capitalist system. Upon this plan you have made a beginning...
Never a maker of anything so risky as predictions, and always a firm believer that the Gates of Hell could never prevail against sound money, Clément Moret entered the eclipse of Honorary Governor after setting Paris the kind of example Paris respects. Amazingly few years ago he was living with his wife and children in a flat so modest that the rent was but 1,500 francs a year. Soon afterward great Raymond Poincaré (considered by his worst parliamentary enemies "abnormally incorruptible") declared that Finance Ministry Clerk Clément Moret was "abnormally honest," had him sent...