Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats.* The heir-apparent got his first big test last June when, at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Uncle Tom fell seriously ill of an intestinal ailment, was hospitalized. Young Jim, a platform committeeman at the Convention, went back to Missouri to run the campaign, earned a smashing triumph when the State returned record Democratic majorities for both national and State tickets. Last week in Kansas City, appearing at his offices for the first time since his illness, Tom Pendergast felt perfectly safe in turning over "active control" of his machine to Young Jim. Pale, shaky and down...
...Songwriter Harry Dacre dedicated Daisy Bell ("A Bicycle Built for Two") at the time of their elope ment. Al Crossley is a stocky Bostonian chiefly famed as a sprinter. Walthour & Crossley finished second in last December's Manhattan six-day race, warmed up for last week's triumph by winning a race in Copenhagen last month. Hailed now as the most dangerous rivals to the German team of Heinz Vopel and Gustav Kilian, who recently passed a cycle of nine six-day races without losing one, Walthour & Crossley this week sail for a bicycle tour of Europe starting...
...belongs to the Curzon school of high-hat diplomacy and it was a triumph of U. S. diplomacy when he waved that hat at Mr. Hull...
...paper, it looks as though Yale must be conceded a slight edge. But Harvard-Yale games can't be figured on paper. Pre-game statisticians could have hardly predicted the Yale 3-0 triumph over Barry Wood's 1931 team, a team that had downed Army and Holy Cross to stave off defeat until Albie Booth kicked away an unblemished record in the last quarter. And on the other side of the fence, there is the record of Harvard's last Yale and major victory in 1933 when Fergie Locke ran through the entire Eli team for a score...
Advising opponents of the present democratic regime to cease obstructionist activities, Professor William Ripley, Harvard economist, expressed the opinion that the President's triumph in the recent election is attributable to the fact that he sensed the social unrest of the day, and by his actions convinced the country that he was willing to help remedy the defects of the old order...