Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...
...drift away from a constitutional to an unlimited democracy of the kind that La Follette is preaching has always meant in the past the rise of class warfare, the disappearance of individual liberty, and the triumph of the principle of force", said Professor Irving Babbitt when asked by a CRIMSON reporter to comment on La Follette's attitude toward the constitution and the Supreme Court...
...thought ourselves that perhaps it might be just as well if he didn't. But the arrival of his two hundred pound father from Kentucky swung the scales for Kenneth, and all those dear old forces of love, live business, and justice which we so like to see triumph (or 'don't we?) came out ahead. We tried to too, but we got hopelessly blocked halfway up the aisle...
Major August Belmont, Ladkin's owner, was in receipt of $28,750-the purse for International Special No. 2. Gratified, said Major Belmont; "What can a man say ? What can a man say who has just won so great a triumph?" Said Pierre Wertheimer, owner of Epinard: "I believe my horse should have won the race." Said Jockey Haynes, whose overcautious riding turfmen blamed for the French stallion's second U. S. defeat: "It was a shame...
...dramatic art that is widely recognized as one of the University's most distinguished achievements. It is now time for a little generosity on the part of the University. Because he has made much of little, he should be given much; because he has proved that his idea can triumph over bodily limitations it deserves a suitable and adequate embodiment. It is doubtless possible for a university to exist without a "47 Workshop," but it would not be possible for Harvard to be Harvard without a wide diversity of intellectual interest, a warm appreciation of leadership and initiative, a hospitality...