Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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fore, McGill was expected to duplicate its 10-0 slaughter of Yale in Montreal but instead just managed to go home with a 2-1 triumph Monday night. The Bulldogs aurged on the Canadians throughout the last period, scoring once and threatening continually...
...pugnacious girl (Claudette Colbert) and an aggressive man (Fred MacMurry) who fight and love one another. It is amusing in a rather mild way, but it does not have the robust humor of "It Happened One Night." Each of the pictures in the cycle that has followed the latter triumph has been less light, and more dependent on tenuous plots and slapstick humor. However, the two stars, with the assistance of Robert Young, make all they can of the material with which they have to deal, and persuade the spectators that they are whiling away pleasant hours...
...thought of the effect on the great colonial powers were his tribesmen, savage, and untutored in modern military strategy, to defeat the well equipped, tactically superior legions of Rome. Does he not know that the white nations most powerful in Africa will look with deep concern on this native triumph? That prominent Britons will look askance at this hitherto unconsidered puissance which commands the Lake Tana and which may, by example, menace the British hegemony in Africa? Can he not realize that maintaining a strong and independent native African state and at the same time showing the rest of Africa...
...year entered its last hours the fate of Premier Pierre Laval, 1931'S Man of the Year, continued to tiptoe (see p. 18). In Asia practical control of North China was obtained by Japan in 1935 so adroitly and inconspicuously that it was a major Japanese triumph to have avoided producing a Man of the Year. China's perpetually harassed Man of the Year, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, entered his most excruciating morass of dilemmas...
...triumph-we saw it begin...