Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Athens the Army-Navy oligarchy which dominates Greece was in high foment last week at the triumph of a clique of ousted Royalist officers who have now managed to regain the commands which they lost when King George II was banished from Greece (TIME...
...secretary of these new evangelists, in an interview with Mr. Croy, cited with triumph certain polls which have been taken at Dartmouth and Princeton, giving the views of such of the student body as answered the questionaires on the subjects of God and immortality. It is a matter for relief and gratification that such canvasses are not in favor in Cambridge; for whatever one's personal opinions--which at Harvard remain personal--it is not an occasion for pride to be quoted as an ally of those who sponsor the present campaign. The ghosts of Paine and Ingersoll...
Carr's vault came at the end of a day of triumph of Pacific coast athletes. For the sixth time within the last seven years, a band of Californians won the track & field championship of the Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America, held at Philadelphia. This year it was Stanford. Southern California, last year's champions, finished in fourth place, chiefly because it produced a sturdy youngster named Charles Borah, who left his nearest competitor ten yards behind in the 220-yard dash, four yards behind in the 100-yard dash...
...TRIUMPH OP YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Bishop Philip Adolph of Wurzburg has a sister-in-law, Baroness Theodata of Ehrenburg and a nephew, her son, Ernest. It is because of Ernest's remarkable propensity for inventing fictions that his uncle, personifying the credulous cruelty of the early 17th Century, supposes the youth to be inhabited by evil powers. The child is clapped into a dungeon, made to watch his erratically lovely mother undergo tortures, urged like Joan of Arc to confess sins of whose existence he is unaware. The triumph of youth is achieved when thousands...
...TRIUMPH OF YOUTH-Jacob Wassermann-Boni & Liveright ($2). Boy-witch in fanatical old Germany...