Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nomination for Man of the Year is Mohandas Gandhi. In a warring world, here is a man of peace, whose mastery of body by mind has enabled him to conquer the British .Empire without firing a shot...
Cold with rage, Foreign Affairs Chairman Charles Eaton argued back. "We might just as well face the fact that Russia proposes to conquer the world by infiltration, by revolution or by force of arms. . . . If we don't send this aid the price will be much more than this." The committeemen engaged in six hours of futile wrangling before they sent the bill to the House...
...University has relaxed its iron-clad rule only slightly, one department now at least partly shares the spotlight of advance information that General Education once held all by itself. Now the undergraduate with an eye towards dabbling a bit in Social Relations, the concentrator looking for now courses to conquer, and the prospective graduate student all have some sort of concrete preview of what lies behind those 32 brief listings in the back of the catalogue. Perhaps now some of the hasty shuffling from course to course at the beginning of the term, some of the long lingerings over...
...personally do not fear gangrene because I feel that the progress of medical researchers will finally conquer this heretofore neglected disease (arteriosclerosis...
During the winter months, the Club uses a cabin on Mount Washington as a base for ice-climbing and skiing operations. And, at frequent intervals, the members dig out their maps and ferret out new heights to conquer...