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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension, all mankind. Their morality is practical and successful. It is eminently Christian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DESIRES" AND THE CENSORS | 3/2/1955 | See Source »

Amid sickening thuds in the L.A.B. the other day, several white-jacketed judo enthusiasts were watching two of their fellows "giving way so as to conquer." Respectfully shielding myself behind their backs, I watched a balding, mustachioed chap talking earnestly to another student on the mat. A second later, the man with the mustache flipped out one of his feet, twisted his shoulder, and the pair of them spun to the mat in a tangle of arms and legs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...preface were listed the "Ten Commandments of Judo." The last was: "Apply to your private life the motto, 'Give Way So As to Conquer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...Conquer...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

...CONQUEST OF EVEREST, by Sir John Hunt, was the high point in mountain-climbing literature, an impressively solid description of the planning and the kind of men it took to conquer Everest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: GENERAL NONFICTION | 12/20/1954 | See Source »

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