Word: conquere
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There was a time when men told fortunes by the stars, when Louis XI quailed before the coursing of the planets, when Tycho Brahe observed the passage of a comet and thereupon fore told the coming of a scourge out of the North who should conquer and disappear. So was Gustavus Adolphus preceded by prophecy. So the stars entered intimately into the lives of men, Upon the story of the telescope nations waited in suspense...
Tonight at 8.15 o'clock in the Arena, Crimson and Green will meet again, and again a victory for the University skaters will place them in a position to claim the championship crown if they conquer Yale on Saturday night. Of the Eastern college sextets, Harvard and Dartmouth have the best early season records, and a late-season clash between the two teams assumes all the color of a titular affair...
...wondered why, while they were about it, newsgatherers had not invented a Moses of Mousedom, leading his people to a promised land and handing down commandments nibbled upon a pebble. Or an Alexander, weeping mousily when there were no more ranches to conquer. Or some evidence that it had rained mice, or that the rodents were from Mars, or?since a mouse running from beneath a woman's skirt used to be regarded as a symbol of unchastity?that the mouse army was a portentous sign of the times...
...tackle Toronto, last year's Canadian National Champions, in Madison Square Garden in New York on December 31, playing a return match in Boston on January 3. Both of the Canadian teams are fast skaters and accurate shooters. The University puck-chasers will have to play stellar hockey to conquer these teams, it is generally conceded...
...under the auspices of the Canadian Alpine Club, a party of eight mountaineers, numbering in their party Mr. Hall, started up the treacherous slopes of Mount Logan. In the latter part of June they succeeded in reaching the summit and thus achieved the distinction of being the first to conquer the gales and icy blasts of Mount Logan, 19,800 feet in altitude and the second highest peak in North America...