Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instantly changing his plans without informing his mother, Carol flew to his throne. Marie, poor dowager, when told as her train reached Vienna of his triumph, was almost prostrated, made confused and contradictory statements, took refuge at Oberammergau from the storm of events...
...from a life which, while eminently respectable, had become in recent years a burden. It was after the death in 1881 of Editor Josiah Gilbert Holland (cofounder with Roswell Smith) that Century reached the zenith of its editorial command. Then, under Editor Richard Watson Gilder, it scored its journalistic triumph with the serial life of Lincoln, by Nicolay & Hay, and a Civil War battle series written by the most important participants. Circulation reached its peak of 150,000 in 1906. Followed a gentle but inexorable decline which not even energetic Editor Glenn Frank (now president of University of Wisconsin) could...
...Bursting with a sense of "personal triumph," Secretary of Labor James John Davis called on President Hoover to tell him that he (Davis) had been nominated for the Senate in Pennsylvania over Senator Joseph Ridgway Grundy . Nominee Davis declared he would not leave the Cabinet until Sept. 1, after he had written his department's annual report...
...Greatest triumph of Mark Twain's Jim Smiley was the training of a broad jumping frog on which he won many a bet. Chief concern of the story is about a bet Smiley made with a stranger that his frog, "Dan'l Webster," could jump farther than any frog in the country. The frogs were lined up. The stranger's animal gave an ineffectual leap, went a few feet. Came Dan'l's turn to jump. He would not budge. Said Mark Twain...
...tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America "Zep-minded...