Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loyalist General Vicente Rojo, Chief of Staff and Commander of the Catalonian Army, made his only public speech of the war: ''You can conquer more ground with material strength, but you cannot conquer the people. Even if you succeed in crushing us you could be sure that from the ruins of our cities and the bones of our dead there would rise the ideal of liberty and independence, which is fed by the blood of our soldiers...
...Soviet-controlled areas of Sinkiang and Outer Mongolia. Should that occur China's cause will necessarily become Russia's battle. For Russia cannot tolerate a Japanese threat to the long southern border of Siberia and the trans-Siberian railroad. But before that can happen Japan, which conquered one New China, will have to conquer still another New China not so strong in resources but much stronger in natural defenses...
Shades of William Walker! Who is the budding Cortez at Cornell? Howard R. Anderson who writes so winningly...of big armies, big navies and bigger air forces to conquer North America, must be very young for college. I had ideas like his when I was about twelve but got over them about the time I stopped reading G.A. Henty. The past few weeks most of us have been thankful to live in country where the military machine is subordinate to the government and now this adolescent Alexander shrilly pipes for worlds to conquer...
...other hand it was shown that those who have exhibited a strong determination to conquer this defect have through regular and consistent efforts achieved success...
...duty as a soldier - and again today I AM THE FIRST SOLDIER OF MY PEOPLE! ... I COULD NEVER BE REPROACHED WITH BEING A COWARD. . . . THE GERMAN NATION IS WITH ME, AND ITS WILL IS MY COMMAND. . . . ONE COMMON WILL IS STRONGER THAN PRIVATION AND DANGER AND WILL CONQUER BOTH...