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...completed his 3,600-mile conquest of the Atlantic in 33 hours, 29 minutes, at an average speed of 107½ miles per hour...
...Grand Councilors of San Marino were listening with anxious faces to proposals dictated by Signor Benito Mussolini. He came and saw San Marino (TIME, Aug. 30), and now, it seemed, he would deign to conquer this land of 38 square miles and but 12,027 souls. Armed conquest would, in the circumstances, be absurd; but Signer Mussolini's agents proposed last week the building of a railway which would lead just as surely to the conquest of San Marino?by Italian immigrants...
...which had gone with it. Three thousand miles of ocean merely made his disassociation from the past more permanent. The disassociated colonist, in turn, produced the pioneer, who renouncing even the fragments of European culture remaining on the sea-board sought an outlet for his restless vigor in the conquest of the wilderness. The frontier vanished; industrialism offered a new channel for his boundless energies. The pioneer became the business man. Pragmatists like James and Dewey, mistaking a means for an end, furnished him a philosophy. The utilitarian process was complete...
...known in the present century up from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), capturing successively all the chief strongholds south of the middle Yangtze river, including the present Nationalist Capital, Hankow (TIME, Oct. 18). Thence he has proceeded to capture all the great cities south of the lower Yangtze, completing his conquest of the Southern half of China by taking Shanghai (TIME, March...
...were formally at war. We had become "but one of the champions of the rights of mankind". President Wilson's words were taken up and echoed from one end of the world to another. We had declared war to end war; we were fighting not for dominion or for conquest, but in order that some day such strife should not be possible...