Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mortlake, England, J. A. Brown stepped from a slender shell, grinned with gratification. Coxswain of the Cambridge University crew for four years, he had just participated in his fourth straight triumph over dark blue rivals from Oxford. The Oxford eight, conceded little chance to win, was kept in the 4¼-mile race mainly through the heroic efforts of Howard T. ("Ox") Kingsbury Jr. This gentleman, captain of last year's undefeated Yale crew, pulled a mighty oar, shouted encouragement to his wilting shell-mates, kept the winners' margin to an honorable three lengths. The Cambridge time...
Thoroughly modern, businesslike, Chiang Kai-shek had ready a short typed statement for the press: "Right must triumph. The Powers cannot keep China suppressed no matter how many warships and soldiers they send here. We will use the economic boycott against any nation which still desires to keep intact the treaties which have oppressed China in the past and validated the foreign concessions. The Chinese people are unable to feel contented so long as the present situation obtains...
...amateur indoor tennis tournament held in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan, again proved a purely French triumph. Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon met Francis T. Hunter and Dr. George King in the doubles final; conquered, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. Borotra then whipped Brugnon in the singles, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3. Partisan U. S. spectators derived negative satisfaction in reflecting that the entry list had not included Tilden, Johnston...
...apartments with the blinds down." "Jesus was never moved from the path of duty however hard by public opinion. Why should I be?" "I believe that there is a Devil." "Counsellor Spencer tried to show that I sought a fat office in Washington. But I could triumph over them all. I said, 'No sir, I did not seek a fat office.'" "The closer art keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked off over the ocean as it lay basking in Moonlight's silvery rays. How grand the sight! Beautiful indeed...
With the closing of the Beethoven Centenary Festival last night, the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society completed the triumph achieved in the Mass by an excellent presentation of the stirring chorus in the last movement of the Ninth Symphony. The chorus, somewhat smaller than that which took part in the Mass sang the difficult musical setting of Schiller's Ode to Joy, with the finest of technique and intelligence of expression which might have been expected from the work which this admirably trained group had done earlier in the week. As always much honor must...