Word: conquer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across the sea wherever they may be and nearly always driven back to the flat prairie, the land of opportunity and fertility. "Now I see," says Jo Berg, the dissatisfied old schoolmaster, "why it required mountain folk and sailors to conquer the prairie! Their knapsacks and their hearts were full of the wild scenery of the old country, and they lived on it summers and winters alike! The mountains and the sea rescued the plain...
Since there were few alarms in the vicinity, the engine company sought other fields to conquer, and exercised their skill abroad, particularly in Boston. Following their labors on behalf of Boston's citizens, the University firefighters invariably held a dinner or supper in town before returning to Cambridge, by way of celebrating the conflagration. Little is known of these dinners, but it appears that water, which flowed so freely from their pumps, was little used as a beverage once the fire had been quenched...
...STORY OF A NOVEL-Maxim Gorky-Dial Press ($2.50). A married girl seeking more from life encounters a half-made creature from the imagination of the novelist who has sought to conquer her. The unreality of the creature, who is the thickness of paper and invisible standing sidewise, makes her tremble for the validity of her own existence. She is more friendly to the novelist...
...Pravda, explains this metamorpho sis of Communism as due to a new-conception of the means of attain ing Socialism, meaning that, in opposition to Red terrorism, "the proletarian State must get a hold upon the chief commanding heights of industry and commerce; then, by means of commercial competition, conquer private capitalism, and the quicker we develop our economic re sources the sooner we shall accomplish our socialistic aims...
that will let him, like the hero of She Stoops to Conquer, make terms with beauty as the housemaid, but not as the mistress...