Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manchus were not easy to conquer and, on numerous occasions, Dr. Sun was almost caught by Imperialists and had, consequently, to flee the country. Thus it happened that he spent a great part of his time abroad, always, however, working for the overthrow of the Son of Heaven at Peking, always with a price upon his head. At every capital, his opponents sought to assassinate him. At Tokyo, where he established his headquarters next to the Imperial Chinese Embassy, his very footsteps were dogged. At New York, he proved to a number of skeptical Manhattan bankers, with whom...
This new doctrine did not appeal to women, who preferred the picturesque material brightness of Hinduism, but it developed the fighting man. Hardy, victory-or-die, well-disciplined sort of fellow, the Sikh has become without peer the greatest soldier in Asia. Him the British found hardest to conquer. Having conquered him, they found him their great military asset overseas. In Shanghai and other treaty ports of China, the only constabulary are the long-haired, short-drawered Sikhs.* And, in India, it is the Sikhs who keep the peace...
After all, why not? Belief in a beetle god led the Egyptians to raise huge pyramids, the wonder of the world. Belief in his star of destiny led Napoleon to conquer Europe. Perhaps belief in a well tested fountain pen--psychologically soothing will lead the D-man to the broad beckoning plain of C. Try anything once...
...could do so it had fallen and its garrison had been massacred. But he met the Mexican Army at San Jacinto, routed it and took Santa Anna prisoner. Before the captive, Houston took a gnawed ear of corn from his pocket, saying: "Sir, do you ever expect to conquer men who fight for freedom, when their General can march four days with one ear of corn for his rations...
...only remedy; and the most promising aspect of the whole matter is that Mr. Duke's fortune will go to help dispel just such ideas as his. But neither in the schools which he is aiding nor in any others endowed by "big business men" will the truth soon conquer if the opinions of the endowers are allowed to control the academic machinery. "Capitalists" advance the cause of education by contributing their millions, but they defeat its very aim by assuming its direction...