Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radiomen are trying to conquer radio's last frontier-the ultra-high frequencies. Most avid explorers of this wilderness are television engineers. But televisors cannot simply establish squatters' rights, they must compete before the Federal Communications Commission with other services that seek room for expansion (TIME, July11). Meanwhile the inventors and engineers are concentrated on the problem of stretching this narrow field, increasing its effective range beyond the horizon. RCA-NBC boosted its television transmitter to the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building, claims reliable reception for its experimental telecasts over a radius of 43 miles...
...Great Britain and France had now decided that they want a "military stalemate" in Spain, feel that it offers the "best chance of a constructive solution of the Spanish problem." Pontificated Pundit Lippmann: "Once it were made clear to both sides in Spain that neither would be able to conquer the other, an armistice might be arranged...
Unity was founded 50 years ago in Kansas City by a wife and husband, down on their luck, named Myrtle and Charles Fillmore. Suffering from tuberculosis Mrs. Fillmore suddenly came to believe that there was a supreme power which could conquer all "negative or destructive agencies." She cured herself of her ailment and Mr. Fillmore got over a diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences...
...ready to conquer death, Myrtle Fillmore died in 1931. Today, Charles Fillmore, 83, is president of the Unity School of Christianity, founded in Kansas City to train Unity teachers. A 1,320-acre farm 16 miles away is designed eventually to be "Unity City," a Jerusalem of Unity's anticipated Kingdom of God on earth. Unity has a predominantly feminine leadership; attracts few men to meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity...
...workouts Cornell will be primed for victory over Harvard. They have already pulled away from Syracuse, and comparative distances show that the home swingers will have to put a lot more power in their first half-mile if they are to take the big Red and drive on to conquer Navy in the following race...