Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will be eight lectures on Armenia by Frederick Cornwallis Conybearse, M. A., Honorary Fellow of University College, Oxford. 1. Physiography and Climate of America as Determining Factors of History. 2. Assyrian Epoch, Vannic Civilization. 3. The Khaldis Moses of Kleoren's Traditions. 4. Advent of Armenians and the Persian Conquest. 5. Iranic Influence on Language, Religion, and Institutions of Armenia. 6. Greek Influence. Christianity. 7. Armenia as an Appanage of Parthia. Sassanid Epoch and Mohammedan Conquest. 8. Armenian Diaspora in Cilicia, Persia, Poland. Political Outlook of Today...
Yesterday's two great aerial feats make one wound what the man's next conquest of the air will be. The news that the second attempt at a non-stop flight across the Atlantic has been successful, and that the "pond" has been bridge, not only by one who stopped to land at the Azores, but by an American and a Briton who spurned the ground for over 16 hours, adds one more to the long list of aerial accomplishments. The second team the establishment of a new altitude record of 33,136 feet, although of less public interest, still...
...Civilization as we know it has reached a point where it must preclude war or perish by war and war can be precluded only by a conquest of the world by a single power, or by an organization of many nations to prevent its recurrence...
...Bowdoin Prize of $50 for undergraduates has been awarded to Harold Henry Berman '20, of Dorchester, for a translation into Latin of a passage in Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico...
...which, if it should succeed in gaining and holding important objectives, would shorten the war. The only end of the war, as they see it, is the crushing of German military power to such a degree that a victory of civilization will be scored against a German effort at conquest and the lesson taught that in the twentieth century wars for conquest planned, timed and inaugurated for the aggrandizement of emperors or empires do not pay as they often did between the periods of Alexander the Great and Napoleon; the lesson that civilization virtually is a union of righteousness dominated...