Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This victory emphasizes the importance of the University's tilt against the Brunonians the week before the Yale game. If Brown should conquer Dartmouth two weeks hence, she would stand near the top of the Easter football sensible, and the game in the Stadium would assume and unwanted crucial aspeces...
Since Alexander sighed-if he ever did-for more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski...
...crowd trembled. But the champion had been before in evil straits; he had hammerblows waiting; now, triumphantly, he began to use them. Slowly, remorselessly, he advanced until he was on even terms with his adversary, until he was ahead of him. With one more effort he would conquer. . The crowd quivered. The moment had come...
Years pass when no man can conquer and bestride "The Old Hag of the Alps"-the Matterhorn. Humpbacked, she towers, and her hump is a jagged ridge from which many have slithered down to death. About her hungry lightning tongues lick often, winds howl, and evil legends cluster grim and hoar. Sometimes, when a climbing-hatchet slips and sickening pebbles roll, it seems that the Hag chuckles...
...realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), son of a physician at the court of King Amyntas in rugged Macedon, attended the academy conducted by Plato, then went home to tutor Amyntas' fiery grandson. This lad, Alexander, after conquering the world, endowed Aristotle, gave him an heiress to wife and put men at his disposal to collect flora and fauna in all directions. Aristotle studied specimens, made inferences, founded "science." He was tough-minded. None of Plato's mystical generalizations for him. He worked out the first "organon...