Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first year men will be called upon to show their very best form to conquer the Purple youngsters today. The visiting team is perhaps even stronger than its powerful predecessors of the past few years and will be out to avenge an 8 to 5 defeat administered by the 1931 Crimson outfit last spring...
...visitors are more or less an unknown quantity, but St. John's baseball team are traditionally well-coached, hard-hitting aggregations, from which much trouble may be expected. Lest year's Freshman outfit succeeded in overhauling an early disadvantage to conquer the schoolboys by a 9 to 3 count...
...other side knows when they withdraw what its own losses have been nor how heavy those of the opposing force. Therefore, it is not on account of material damage, still less from any possible computation of the figures, that the losers give up the struggle. The will to conquer sweeps all before it. There is a psychological phenomenon in great battles which explains and determines their results. The moral factor is the most important element...
Quick to follow up his advantage, Mr. Lloyd George-who won the election of 1918 by promising to "Hang the Kaiser"-placed on sale at sixpence (12?) a pamphlet called We Can Conquer Unemployment! Soon he jubilantly announced that "the first edition has sold out six times over!" In this palpable campaign broadside, shrewdly sold instead of given away, Mr. Lloyd George proposes to employ nearly 600,000 workers, "many within three months" on road building, house construction, telephone installation, "electrical developments," land drainage, reforestation, canal digging, and "in meeting the huge demand for British goods" which -the sixpence pamphlet...
...shek was completed almost a year ago (TIME, June 25), but last week a big and a little piece of bad news made it seem that Mr. Chiang must lay down his presidential fountain pen, gird on his old sword and Mauser pistol, and sally forth from Nanking to conquer all over again two great provinces. Shantung and Hunan...