Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distrusts Europe. He hates the Ruhr situation because he believes France wants to conquer Germany. (Equally he condemns the American régime in Hayti, which he regards as imperialistic...
...chiefly well-known psychiatric types?multiple personalities, obsessions, phobias, depression and melancholy, hypochondria. The treatment consists largely in recognized psychoanalytic methods of probing the patient's mental life, revealing the forgotten early experiences, hereditary or other causes which initiated the difficulty, and encouraging the sufferer to face and conquer his own troubles. Fifty patients a day are coming to the clinic, many of them intelligent and refined persons, and excellent results have already been secured...
During the day he will be reminded of his duties to Harvard and the world, of his opportunities and advantages. He will be exhorted to a finer life, informed that the Spirit of Youth will conquer, that the comradeship of truth and wisdom are his light in the darkness. He will go to his room in the late evening and tell over the same old stories, sleep as stolidly as usual, and go down to Soldiers Field the next afternoon to cheer the baseball team like an ordinary undergraduate. But it will have been a great Class Day, the greatest...
...sooner have the Earthlings become acclimated to Utopia, than they yet about to conquer it in the good old fashioned way of Pizarro and Clive. Infectious diseases have been so long stamped out in Utopia by the Utopian scientists that the mere arrival of the Earthlings sets up an epidemic. They are put in quarantine?and promptly start ambushing their hosts as a beginning of making Utopia safe for Democracy. Only the subeditor, Mr. Barnstaple, dissents fro'm the Earthling program of conquest and is nearly shot as a traitor by his fellows as a result. He escapes from them...
...railway used by the French for transportation of coal to France was torn up for a considerable, distance by bombs. To the French ,this is only an inconvenience. Their victory in the Ruhr, from a materialistic point of view, is complete; but they have not been able to conquer the spirit of the people to the same extent...