Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California. Though he could take no credit for what had happened, Mr. Fletcher last week had good reason to hope that the Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning...
Then in 1918 came his triumph. He saw his little Serbia swell to five times its original size, gobble Montenegro where he was born and slices of Austria-Hungary and Bulgaria and become the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later Jugoslavia. In 1921 old King Peter died and Alexander was King at last. Very quickly Croats and Slovenes learned who were their masters...
...putting it mildly to state that the creation of this committee is a triumph for the energetic and capable Dental Dean. In one jump he has attained two of the ends which he most desired He has secured official recognition from the country's greatest University that oral health and research are of tremendous significance for general physical health and research; he has secured much needed support from experts in other fields for the research men of his own department. And, secondly, by the same token, he has given striking notice that the Dental School is to be regarded...
...Without denying woman any of the rights and privileges she has . . . acquired, we must not lose sight of the fact that woman's primary role is ... the rearing of children. . . . No triumph in any other field of endeavor could excuse their neglecting...
...first East-West polo matches at Chicago last year were a Century of Progress triumph. They produced two weeks of noisy entertainment by Chicago socialites and the liveliest polo in 20 years. In the second East-West series, which started at Meadow Brook, L. I. last week, the East's main consolation for producing nothing comparable in the way of excitement was the one period of magnificent polo which enabled the young team of Michael Phipps, James Mills, Winston Guest, and William Post to open the series against the heavier, more experienced Westerners, Eric Pedley, Elmer Boeseke, Cecil Smith...