Word: conquests
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...class, "In the colonies, during inflation, you might see creditors fleeing madly from debtors who were chasing them to pay them with bushel-basket fuels of dirty paper."... Most famous of all, perhaps, is his address, immediately consequent upon the taking of the Philippines. The lecture was entitled, "The Conquest of the United States by Spain...
...dynamic General Justo signed with broad and highbrowed Dr. Getulio Dornellas Vargas of Brazil what they called "ten treaties." First was a pact of utmost significance, binding Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Uruguay and Paraguay last week to 1) renounce aggressive war, 2) refuse to recognize territorial acquisitions made by conquest and 3) combat outside intervention in settling South American disputes. Up to the day of signing it was not known how many states would sign with Argentina and Brazil. Paraguay's signature was taken to mean that she wants to stop fighting her everlasting war with Bolivia over...
...uncanny to the layman. To one who can appreciate its beauties it is really the acme of artistic perfection. A resection of the stomach by a master like Mayo, widely excising the diseased part, restoring continuity and function, all so deftly, and beautiful in its beneficent invasion and conquest, is a magnificent epitome of the surgical art. " 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,' but only the surgeon knows how uneasy lies the head that wields the knife. It requires such intrepidity, such clairvoyance. Cutting must be done with such consummate skill that no unnecessary or vital...
...slightly draggled be recent revels, and the other played nervously with a cigarette. "The lay of Hildebrand," said the hierophant, "survives only because two monks broke their vows of obedience. To stamp out paganism the Church had ordered all vernacular writings destroyed. It succeeded very well, for it used conquest to extend its influence, or, in failing that, it converted a Germanic chieftain by offering him a plump, pretty wife, delivered on condition that he embrace the true faith and help stamp out the practices of the heathen. These tactics were always successful. So the only remains of a rich...
...ready to come down. The descent went as smoothly as the ascent, the U. S. S. R. landing lightly in a meadow about 60 mi. from Moscow. Fully half the 80,000 population of Kolomna, carefully primed by Dictator Stalin's propagandists to witness a great scientific conquest by their nation, poured across the Moscow River to greet the aeronauts. Pilot George Prokofiev mounted the gondola, harangued the crowd with a lecture in which he credited the flight's success entirely to the Proletarian Revolution and the Communist Party. His companions, Ernest Birnbaum and Constantin Godunov, declared...