Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism had had its day and the foundations of the old order rocked beneath the blare of its victorious trumpets. A new Napoleon had risen from the bloody barricades of the "June Days" in Paris, and Empire was soon to triumph in the shadow of the Republic...
...sheer personal triumph none of these occasions compared with a demonstration last week when Governor Murray shot across the Red River bridge he had fought for last summer and led a motorcade of 300 cars back to his Texas birthplace. Along the 40-mi. route to Collinsville, Texas farmers turned out to cheer him in the rain. Col. William Easterwood came from Dallas to Collinsville to introduce him to a huge crowd as "our next President." About the streets "Murray-For-President" banners flapped in the drizzle. An Oklahoma band played "The Eyes of Texas Are Upon...
...very's triumph was to find an enzyme or ferment which has particular hunger for the coating of most deadly Type III. He had searched the country from coast to coast, had made hundreds of experiments. The necessary enzyme Dr. Avery and Rene Jules Dubos, Rockefeller bacteriologist trained by New Jersey's Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, found in the cranberry bogs of New Jersey. (They found it in the muck of the bogs, not in the berries.) When the bog-bred enzyme and Type III pneumococci are mixed in a test tube, the pneumococci are skinned, like Samson...
...measurement is possible and because the time lag is different for every element and every form of every element, it is a delicate analyzer of unknown substances. It can discern one trillionth of a part of a foreign substance in anything presented to its wrenching beam. Last week's triumph of Professor Allison was his ability to state that eka-cesium had six very similar forms or isotopes. No. 87 belongs to the base-forming family of elements which include lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, cesium. Professor Allison, 50, asked scientists to call the element virginium. after the State...
Pool is the present holder of the Intercollegiate championship. He is the Massachusetts State Champion and also won the Gold Racquet this fall. Patterson is captain of the Harvard team. He defeated Pool in the Harvard University Tournament this year. Chances of a Crimson triumph in the contest are rated high...