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Word: triumph (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Collapse In the Capitol | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Triumph for Lilienthal was, on the face of it, defeat for Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Lewis Willkie. It was defeat for Willkie because it was the end of his battle to keep a privately owned public utility on its feet in the Tennessee Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indiana Advocate | 7/31/1939 | See Source »

...Triumph In Moscow the Soviet Goverment newspaper, Izvestia, proudly reported a dental triumph: three Ukrainian cows fitted with false teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Immediately | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...give me 20 minutes and you've done all the talking. Now you'll keep your word and listen to me." Cattleman Mackenzie never carried a gun. Said he: "I'm too big to do any gunfighting. Nobody could possibly miss me." His biggest triumph: the 1906 Hepburn Act, which brought cattlemen fixed interstate freight rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 12, 1939 | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

...visitors' triumph was engineered chiefly by veteran twirler Al Hatch, who scattered six Crimson hits over nine innings and bore down when men were on the bases. His mates jumped on Tom Healey and capitalized on some infield lapses to chalk up three runs in the first and one in the second. To all intents and purposes, they sewed up the ball game right then and there...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Listless Stahlmen Drop 4-2 Game to Tufts Jumbos; Hatch Stingy In Pinches | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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