Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Under the auspices of the University Dramatic Association Annie Russell's Old English Comedy Company gave two performances, "The School for Scandal," and "She Stoops to Conquer" last Tuesday evening. On Wednesday evening the Kneisel Quartet gave its first concert of the season. The 1914 Class votes have been compiled. Cornish was voted most popular and best all-round athlete, Ketcham was voted to be most admired, and Bishop the most original...
...control of the Christians. Yet this region as it is today is not a country which is fitted to produce on the modern scale. Rivers run through it into the sea, but in the dry season they become simply dried up river beds. So Italy, in undertaking to conquer Tripoli and use it as a colony, must be prepared to spend years in introducing modern methods and systems of cultivation...
...would be successful in this profession, mere knowledge is not sufficient. A man does not conquer nature by mathematical calculations; it is the application of knowledge to existing conditions, the adaptation of theory to meet unusual circumstances that constitutes success; and to do this a man must have imagination...