Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still looks for worlds to conquer, has been prominent with Lessing Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck scion) in promoting the "Committee for the Nation" which last spring was busy advising the U. S. to devalue the dollar...
...until November 1918 when the Latvian Republic was recognized by the Allies. As the destroyers nosed in, President Albert Kviesis of Latvia watched from his palace. Police reserves were called out to pre vent a Riga crowd from starting trouble when the German sailors came ashore. "Germany intends to conquer Latvia!" shrilled a demonstrator who was soon shushed. In future, the Latvian Government announced, German railway cars will be kept "under close surveillance" while in Latvia and every effort will be made to keep them from being chalked...
...have long intended to pop this question but it took "Husband Abbott's" challenge to conquer my procrastination...
...tainted Crown Prince, deathly pale, spindle-shanked and likely to bleed to death from the dread disease hemophilia, supplied Spanish Republicans with one of their best reasons for ousting the Royal House (TIME, April 20, 1931, et seq.) Last week sentimental Cuban matrons murmured that love can cure and conquer all. One thing was certain. Spain's one-time Crown Prince Alfonso no longer looks tainted. From 92 Ib. his weight has climbed to 136-since the day twelve months ago when into the Swiss sanatorium where he was lying came a ripe-lipped, radiant Cuban patient, Senorita Edelmira...
Sometimes he stoops to conquer rhymes in doggerel that only Tinpan Alley would applaud...