Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal Harvard polo team ended the indoor season on a glorious note of triumph Saturday night in New Haven's riding academy, as they galloped from behind in the fourth and final chukker to defeat the Yale J.V. squad, 12 to 10. The poloists had to score five goals in the last minutes to pull out their upset...
This is a symbolic year for Koussevitzky, and the performance yesterday was in a sense a personal triumph for him. In adding things up, however, the honors must be distributed just as generously elsewhere...
...almost prohibitively hard to sing. The part requires not just a fabulous voice, but also the ability to carry off convincingly a highly dramatic role, one which requires everything from kissing a severed head to dancing a modified strip tease. Ljuha Welitseh's performance was a real virtuoso triumph, which makes it easy to understand how, in two months, she has risen from anonymity to become the Met's leading prima donna...
SCAP officials beamed in approval and Actor Kawarasaki followed this triumph with Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. Both were popular successes and financial flops. What with high taxes and high admission prices, complained Kawarasaki, "we still have to put on plays which, flatter the people who come...
Crocker, who weighed only 155 pounds, was second-string right end on the 1933 squad. He scored a touchdown on a long pass from Danny Wells to clinch the 19 to 6 Crimson triumph over Yale...