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Word: conquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...profane and frequently ribald away from his mike, Mr. Anthony when wired for sound is as full of virtue as a revivalist. Ladies periodically knocked around by their husbands, men whose wives tend to wander indiscriminately, are uniformly advised by Mr. Anthony that life is beautiful and love will conquer all. The ill winds that blow through his microphone bring Mr. Anthony an estimated $3,000 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Problems, Inc. | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...either. There have always been important groups in both Britain and Germany, in both China and Japan, that felt war was stupid and needless. Weeks ago the Rome-Berlin Axis was supposed to be trying to get the Vatican to propose peace on the grounds that Germany could not conquer the British Isles and Britain could not conquer Europe. Hitler's travels of the last fortnight suggested that he might be planning to consolidate Europe before proposing peace again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Peace Talk | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

...East. The Axis has already divided the world, reserving for itself Europe, Africa and the Near East (TIME, Sept. 30). It now has only to conquer its Living Spaces. Logical strategy of the Axis would be to continue hammering at Britain, simultaneously to drive toward the Near East, where are supplies of oil which Germany and Italy need to fight a long world war. Conquest of the Near East would further two other objectives: 1) force the Suez gateway to the Mediterranean; 2) flank Russia on the south. As Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini and Foreign Ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 200th Day | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Many things happened during the 19 days that Generalissimo Francisco Franco's big-shot brother-in-law, RamÓn Serrano Suner, spent in Berlin and Rome. Japan joined the Axis. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini made grandiose plans to conquer much of the world. The war moved toward the Mediterranean, which Don RamÓn's country bounds on the west (see p. 34). And Don RamÓn Serrano Suner, Minister of Government and leader of Spain's dominant Falangist Party, saw many interesting sights and talked to many important people, including Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Cunadissimo's Return | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...desert troops 50 miles along the coast of northwestern Egypt to Sidi Barráni. There he stopped, or was stopped. Ahead of him, along a salt-scarred road-a three-hour run in a fast tank-lay Mersa Matruh, first major objective in Italy's drive to conquer Egypt, a prize the Fascist press at home could shout through the streets as noisily as the populace once roared at slaves in clanking chains. But Graziani waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Turtle in the Desert | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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