Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mediocre man who hangs back. He must make his way in his own fashion, just the same as he would if he were fighting the world. The men who have battled their way through Harvard to the top have a good conception of the kind of opposition they must conquer in the future...
...whole team has been well drilled and should put up both a good offensive and defensive game. Boston College has proved a hard eleven to conquer, and will fight every bit of the way. Cheering sections have been reserved for both units and the University band will provide the music...
...sunk, destroyed, in the mad stress to achieve unholy means to unholy ends. It is hopeless to treat for peace with sovereigns so entirely turned from right to wrong thought. But one thing these peace offers with baleful, hidden purposes will do: they will fix forever our determination to conquer this Intolerable Thing and to turn the minds of the rulers and peoples who have conceived and are fostering it, toward the Right, or else to put them aside from the path of honest nations and men, to live sequestered in their ignominy. One of these two things...
...systematic skipping is the symptom of a D or an F man. A habit of this kind grows, and when such men get their chance to become officers they will not only know less than their companions in arms, but they will also have bad habits to conquer...
...Municipal Building is the type of structure that a German army of invasion would leave unmolested; it is of no military value. Its largest room is no more suited to drill purposes than Sever 12. That Lord Howe wished to sail up the Bronx river to conquer New York State seems ridiculous to us, but it is no more so than the notion that a company can learn tactics in a chamber the size of an average lecture hall. To cross the Alps was a great feat in Hannibal's time; it was a simple move compared to giving about...