Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People with a penchant for writing letters will have new worlds to conquer, thanks to the International Student Activities Committee of the Student Council, whose drive for correspondents with foreign students abroad begins today...
...discovered in unexpected strength and significance. In Europe, the Church has been discovered as the one indomitable champion of justice and truth, defender of the persecuted and oppressed. . . . The quisling press of Norway paid its reluctant tribute when it declared: 'The Christian Front is the most difficult to conquer...
...child in Brooklyn, Joseph Bonavita dreaded Christmas. His father was dead; often he and his mother had nothing on their table but a candle and a plate of spaghetti. Joe swore he would conquer poverty. He became a professional boxer, and finally, fourteen years ago, bought a bar & grill on Brooklyn's bleak Third Avenue. This year black-haired, bash-nosed Joe Bonavita was 39, married, prosperous in a small way and eating well...
...person who can afford $10 for a good time but pays $20 for it, by her standards, is buying nothing but $10 worth of unhappiness and worry. She implied that love can conquer all, however, including budget troubles...
...Alfred H. Barr Jr., research director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, in a comprehensively illustrated monograph out last week (Picasso, 50 Years of His Art; $6). Its 330 pictures were the work of a restless giant in a restless era, who constantly invented new worlds to conquer, then tired of them...