Word: triumphed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artists, the opportunity is offered to express oneself on College topics, as well as affairs of state, national, and international interest. One editorial a night is the general rule of this competition, or its alternative, in the form of a Vagabond, a criticism of the latest Hollywood or Broadway triumph, or a review of the current best seller...
...Grand Old Man" of badminton, Sir George Thomas, whose achievement of winning 78 national badminton titles in the British Isles from 1903 to 1928 is rivaled only by his position as England's best chess player, they did not contribute much to the game's later triumph. Badminton's current status on the U. S. scene is largely a tribute to the power of the cinema...
...with Editors Hill & Mudie that from them "there emerges above all the vivid figure of Lenin himself." Lenin's letters are like business letters. But it was a big business he was about, and as his scheme slowly progresses from small successes to failure to near-success to triumph, even businessmen readers will scarce forbear to cheer. Irritation, anger when schemes go wrong or partners fail him, Lenin frequently shows; personal feeling, almost never. The letters to his wife, Krupskaya, and references to her before and after marriage, are as impersonally businesslike as all the others. Only...
...this bed and kill myself by strength of will power." So saying, she selected the bed, went into a fit of sulks so profound that half a dozen solemn psychiatrists could not even agree on a name for it, variously calling it "hysterical fugue," "split personality," "dementia praecox," "triumph of the subconscious," "self-imposed hypnosis," "voluntary stupor...
...hand and the soup can off his snout. Blood flowed like a waterfall. He jumped to his feet and wriggled free from the professor who tried to grab him as he leaped to the floor. He spat malevolently at both of us. And he fled with a shriek of triumph through the open door...