Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most American educators are now alive to the fact that 919,381 enrolled college and university students, the product in too many cases of chance, fashion or fancy, are by no means the triumph of education which they once thought them. Instead, they are now seeking a way back to Jeffersonian democracy in education, a method of unscrambling the egg, a system which shall restore to higher education its democratic duty of confining its ministrations to minds willing and able to profit by care and direction...
...triumph was distinctly a team effort, though several individuals stood out brilliantly. Wood has never played a more useful role. The blocking of Hageman, Schereschewsky, and White paved the way for Crickard's brilliant sallies against the Army defense. Harvard's green line, undergoing its first real trial, emerged covered with glory Stacked up against a set of hard-bitten West Point veterans, Hardy, Hallowell, Esterly, Myerson, Kopans and their reliefs fought Army's far-famed frontier to a standstill...
Exactly as though they had been sentenced to Death in China, the six Chinese chained up in front of the French Hospital at Vila had their heads chopped off in the good old Chinese way. From a French standpoint the execution was a triumph. It harmonized with the French Government's traditional policy of observing native customs in French colonies wherever possible. But British residents of Vila were furious...
...plaintiff, Robert Esnault-Pelterie, was one of the several aeronauts who sprang up in France immediately after the first triumph of the Wrights. Reputedly the sixth man in France to fly, he built an early plane known as the "R. E. P.", is sometimes credited with constructing the first cantilever monoplane (a wing without external bracing). Of recent years he has engaged chiefly in rocket researches, visited the U. S. last winter to address the Interplanetary Society and to seek money for his experiments which, he hopes, will some day result in a flight to the moon (TIME...
...universities, far from being one of depression, should be rather that of "elation" that the opportunity has come to show an understanding sense of an obligation which one would wish not to escape. The word itself, of ancient use, has persisted through the centuries to define the triumph of the soul of man over his environment. Thomas Chalmers, the great Scottish divine, in his treatise on the adaptation of external nature to the moral and intellectual constitution of man, speaks of an "elate independence of the soul." That independence is more difficult to declare and maintain in extremes either...