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A year ago, it was vanquishing a half-century of hockey failure for the city of St. Louis.

From Washington Post • May 8, 2020

The dawn was vanquishing the matin hour which fled before it, so that from afar I discerned the trembling of the sea.

From Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Purgatory by Norton, Charles Eliot