Word: conquere
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...young become old. They fail to achieve a balance between the good and bad, adopt an attitude through no fault of their own that is not only unnecessary, but destructive of life itself. Youth, if he reckons in the evil formulating his ideals, will be able to meet and conquer the disappointment of life, and preserve his idealism to the end. Santa Claus need never...
...bung in this barrel of trouble is not the attitude of the Faculty, whose good nature tends to conquer their large and righteous anger at being paged like Information Clerks. What's the matter is that if all the red tape in the world were laid end to end University Hall would need half. So unbelievable is the complication of the study card system that Dean Phelps has to give students from the first week in December until the second in February to do the paper work of choosing four courses. Instead of one sharp pain the process...
...detailed review would seem superfluous when critics from all sections of the country have applauded both offerings. Suffice it to say that "Lost Horizon" is the enthralling story of a man's journey to happiness, and "The Good Earth" tells the struggle of a Chinese farmer to conquer the earth from which he sprung...
...explorations, and the final failures and ultimate defeat of that gallant seafarer. He smiled, thinking of the way the sea often wins out against the boldest plans of men, of the mystery of the sea that made men still love to sail it, and suffer on it, and sometimes conquer...
...vast astonishment of the Tokyo press corps last week, that usually suave diplomat, Foreign Minister Koki Hirota, took the gloves off and bluntly explained that the real purpose of Japan's expeditionary force is not to conquer China, but to kick out Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In words chosen with far less tact than his sovereign was about to use to explain the Sino-Japanese War, Mr. Hirota observed: "We are fighting anti-Japanese movements in China. These exist largely in the Chinese Army, and General Chiang Kai-shek is their spearhead. The leaders of present-day China have...