Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel, there is no other social contrivance in the United States so wide in scope as the present system of Daylight Saving. Twice a year by the simple motion of turning a pair of pointers on a numbered surface, the twentieth-century wage-slave achieves his moment of supreme triumph: he discovers that the clock was made for him, not he for the clock. This Thought should be expanded by a Small Group of Serious Thinkers somewhere, whose shoulders are heavily burdened by the destiny of the Universe...
Came last week the triumph of Gutzon. In recent months the political fortunes of Boss Randolph have shrivelled. Mayor-elect of Atlanta, new president of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association, is James L. King, fervent Gutzonian. At the earnest request of the chastened members of the S. M. M. A. Borglum returned to Atlanta. Limping, leaning on two canes (result of a sprained ankle caused when a scaffolding on Mount Rushmore collapsed), he bubbled with new plans for Stone Mountain. The Lukeman Lee, Traveller the horse and his brick-water stains, all were to be blasted off. On the residue...
Toscanini's elevation would mark a final rupture with his longtime stronghold at Milan, rickety old La Scala. Henceforth Manhattan will engage his winters, Bayreuth his summers. Ructions with Italy's lantern-jawed dictator have expatriated him. In the recent Philharmonic triumph in Italy Mussolini attended none of the concerts, nor did he send any telegrams of congratulations...
Their battle practically won, the flyers found little thrill in the flight down the coast until the outlines of Long Island crept over the horizon. Then came the full joy of triumph. They landed at Curtiss-Wright Airport, first to make the flight that had cost the lives of ten before them, beginning with their countrymen Charles Nungesser and François Coli. Among the first to congratulate Coste & Bellonte in the wild crowd of 10,000 that swept over the field and stormed their hangar refuge was Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
...Last week he flew from Arequipa to Lima to take charge of the government. At the flying field, cheering followers tossed him to their shoulders, carried him three miles to the city gates, where, balanced precariously on the roof of a motor truck, he rode through the streets in triumph. At the gates of Government Palace he cut reporters short...