Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...others interested in the life and works of Louis Henry Sullivan. A professor of art and archeology at Dartmouth, Hugh Morrison, author of Louis Sullivan,* was naturally more interested in Sullivan's work than his life. As it happened, both were equally full of tragedy, triumph and despair. Son of an Irish dancing master, Louis Sullivan, at 16, was a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At 17 he was a draftsman in the office of one of the hundreds of fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago...
Much of the background noise was eliminated and Booth's voice was carefully amplified before the transfer, so that the results are indeed a triumph of recording. The striking features of Booth's presentation are the richness of his resonance, the beauty of his inflection, and the simplicity of his interpretation...
...claim that Harvard prestige and wealth make for special privilege. It can be pointed out that Harvard has utilized no influence in this trial whatsoever; she did not even educate the Judge. Consequently, the responsibility for the sentence, which must seem like a joke to the public and a triumph to vested interests, rests solely with Judge Green, not with the College...
High point of With Napoleon in Russia is the description of Napoleon's taking of Moscow, a triumph literally turned to ashes. Before the retreat, as the advance guard pushed on, Napoleon and most of his staff were nearly captured when the army and wandering Cossacks unexpectedly collided. During the retreat, Caul-aincourt saw refugees who were clinging to wagons fall off, be crushed beneath the wheels, while stupefied drivers were heartened at the lightening of their loads. He saw horses that fell, torn apart for food before they were killed. Pursuer and pursued mixed in a vast mass...
...Navy" champion, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes. He made the outstanding gain of the election by an individual Conservative. Obviously no local counts were of much significance, but those for Right & Might, as exemplified by Captain Eden's meagre victory and Admiral Keyes's rousing triumph, caught the fancy of election wiseacres...