Word: conquere
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...harrassing pain from the fifth pair of cranial nerves has always appealed to the sympathies of the dental practitioner and stimulated him to conquer it. That the profession is slowly but surely achieving this task is indicated by the great progress that has been made toward clearing the trail blazed by these two public benefactors. Here at Harvard, notable advances have been made in the use of nitrous oxide and oxygen, and especially in the technique of administering local anaesthetics...
...immensely attracted to her husband's young attache, who remarks, while sprawling on a divan: "At times I am completely at the mercy of my passions." But when she offers to flee with him to some bourne of quiet, she learns again that worldly ambition can conquer desire. Then she accepts the proposition of the urbane Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs who. presumably, is able to make the sacrifices necessary for love without abandoning his prestige...
This was the first victory for the Freshmen since that over Andover. While their play showed some improvement, it is doubtful if it would have been sufficient to conquer strong opposition. Hebron, which has not had the best record among the Maine preparatory schools, had lost a close home game the night before, and aside from one or two individual stars, was not a formidable opponent...
...been exceedingly well translated). The hero is not so much the man as the idea, Napoleon. Not that Author Delteil warps the facts of history; but he gives them an original and Delteilish emphasis. Napoleon's driving dream, he says, was to outstrip Alexander, to conquer the East. "From the cradle to the grave he was impelled by one secret devouring thought: India." Europe kept getting in his way, but that was an accident. "What a man does in life is but a sketch-sometimes even the contrary-of what he dreams. We dream red and live grey, alas...
...author of "The Royal Road to Romance" and "New Worlds to Conquer" said that he had no definite plans for his next book, but expressed the opinion that he would like to produce some works of a more scholarly and serious nature...