Word: prevails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...letter, deprives newcomers of "the right to participate in making the rules under which they must operate." Damning the possible party consequences, the letter added: "No plea for an illusory 'party unity' which surrenders the principle of majority rule in the Senate . . . should be allowed to prevail...
Since the Band is not a charity, Dogherty reasoned, the Student Council would set a bad precedent by placing it on the drive. Even though his views didn't prevail, Dogherty will support the Band's drive for funds...
...this University is premised. This is a belief in the value of dispassionate, rational inquiry into the nature of things... It is difficult for me to see how understanding will ever be achieved if the spirit which at times manifested itself during the question period last Friday night should prevail. Richard Buel Teaching Fellow in History
...appears that those members of the Southern clergy who hold that segregation should prevail [Oct. 6] are more responsive to public opinion than to the will of God. Like the politicians who are afraid of losing the support of the citizens of the South, some spiritual leaders seem fearful of being deserted by much of their congregation if they do not blast the integration movement...
mind without soul may blast some universe to might have been,and stop ten thousand stars but not one heartbeat of this child ;nor shall even prevail a million questionings against the silence of his mother's smile