Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...
...William G. Rockefeller, grandson of James Stillman, this stalwart scion of honorable American lines, gazed, brooding, on the horizon. Bending among his men on a mid-thwart, he had swept with them to shouting triumphs on home waters. Now he led them forth?the bronze-skinned ones?to conquer the oarsmen of the world, as warlike Menelaus led the bronze-greaved Argives against Troy of old. Would his heart and theirs be stout enough? Could he counsel and exhort them to his Nation's glory...
...Coolidge campaign?or what reports divine will be the Dawes campaign for Coolidge?had to conquer some difficulties in its organization before it could proceed calmly and coolly. There was a little disagreement among the mechanics, a scene in the President's private office when one of them almost went on strike...
Unguarded Women. Here is a picture that is better than its title, which suggests flappers running wild through Hollywood. Instead, it is a sterling drama of a man's struggle to conquer the innate cowardice of his soul, done without a single heave of the bosom. Richard Dix, with manly and yet inoffensive touch, depicts a War veteran, acclaimed as a hero, who has assumed the honors due a dead comrade. In China he meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying...
...Charles H. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., at the opening ceremony, said: "We are going to conquer cancer and rid the world of it, regardless of the cost." He declared that he did not know whether the cure would be effected through a serum or radium. His predictions were evidently for the former, for he declared that medicine could cure the ills of the nation?Congress, morons, lunatics, Harry Thaw and newspaper headlines...