Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...details were in hand. They found their home windowless because of a near miss by an Allied bomb, plaster crumbling, plumbing insufficient. With Levin H. Campbell, III '48 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45 and Jean Andrey from ISS as aides to the original trio, the staff set out to conquer the terrain...
...Conquer the Unconquerable Sir: Just finished reading "Twilight Existence" (TIME, July 28), in which the mother of a feeble-minded child expresses a wish that euthanasia may be legally extended to cover the slaughter of feeble-minded and so-called hopelessly deformed children. . . . Euthanasia is not the solution for this problem...
Feeblemindedness, malformations of the human body, tuberculosis and other diseases are a test of man's ingenuity. Many of the so-called incurables of the past are today among our outstanding citizens and humanitarians. To conquer the so-called unconquerable is man's highest...
...determined scientist always has new worlds to conquer. Professor Auguste Piccard, who broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...
From the Louis XV wing of the great palace at Fontainebleau came sounds of furious piano cadenzas, the scraping of violins, and of someone trying to conquer a flute. The Americans were back...