Word: triumphantly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the police that if the police left first they would leave, too. The police did, and at 9 o'clock the survivors of the Sikhs, not one of whom was not covered with blood stains and with some part or another of his clothes torn, led the triumphant procession of Gandhi's non-violent congress followers down the streets...
...days of continuous flight. Brothers Walter and Albert Hunter came up in their Plane Big Ben for the 154th time with gas and oil, with a meal prepared by Sister Irene John and Kenneth pushed on on, circling Chicago's Sky Harbor airport-finally waggled their wings in triumphant acknowledgment of the cheers they knew were coming from the crowd below. Thus, last week, did the Family Hunter of Sparta, Ill., break the endurance record of 420 hr. 21 min. set last year by Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forrest O'Brine in the St. Louis Robin (TIME...
...inhuman perseverance Mr. Snowden sat on, ignoring breakfast time, snarling through the long, hot morning, still relentless as noon approached and passed. Suddenly Mr. Churchill challenged on a minor issue, demanded a division (vote). In this emergency no tellers could be found. They had sneaked out to lunch. Triumphantly Snowden-baiter Churchill moved adjournment in this "emergency" and the Chancellor was forced to yield, sour-faced. As he left the Government Bench, triumphant Winnie Churchill shouted mockingly: "Snowden, you have met your Waterloo...
...think in millions but in billions. . . . Disease is being conquered. . . .The Parliament of Nations grows steadily in influence and respect. . . . International questions have nearly all been settled, and the problems of government have now become social and economic within the confines of the State. . . . Dictators are weakening. Democracy is triumphant." Foreseeing not only a general revival of world-prosperity, Mr. Ochs also specifically foresaw Germany as leading in the industrial renaissance. Said he: "I have spent a few weeks touring in Germany and there I have seen much. ... I have been impressed with the thought that Germany is making...
...Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been...