Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passes were enough to give Winthrop its lone and deciding touchdown in its triumph. First quarterback Flinn threw a pass to fullback Weller. Then Weller tossed one to right end Baumgarten, who raced over the goal from the 20-yard line. Versatile Baumgarten caught his breath, then drop-kicked the point...
...opposing parochial schools. He definitely alarmed them by becoming a convert to Henry George's idea that a Single Tax* would be the world's economic salvation. When Henry George ran for mayor of New York in 1886, Single-Taxer McGlynn campaigned for him "because the triumph of his ideas means the bringing about of conditions under which it will be possible to do God's will on earth as it is done in Heaven...
...screwballs behind the big desks. Much of Stand-in's authentic atmosphere and crisp character delineation is due to the directing of Tay Garnett, much of it to the writing of Gene Towne and Graham Baker, who have developed Clarence Budington Kelland's story into a personal triumph of their own. Always a daring experimenter, Producer Walter Wanger may well find that this defiant guffaw at his own trade is the finest picture he has ever made...
...Before the 1934 season started Giant Manager Bill Terry sarcastically inquired whether Brooklyn was still a member of the National League. He lived to regret it. The Brooklyn club closed the season in sixth place, but it was a great triumph for Casey because his team beat the Giants in the two crucial games that kept them from winning the league pennant...
Premier Mussolini, far from actually treading harder on Mr. Eden's toes last week, instructed spade-bearded Italian Ambassador Dino Grandi obligingly to ease up at sessions of the London International Committee on Non-Intervention in Spain, and this enabled the British to score a "diplomatic triumph'' for window dressing (see p. 24). Thus all was set for members of His Majesty's Government to come beaming with success to the final meeting of Edward VIII's Parliament last week...