Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cartoon about a horse and an iceman who conquer technological unemployment by going machine age, a Russian travelogue, and a British Information Services film about buses and stately homes round out the program, but add little more than symmetry...
...next month by leading Ruhr industrialists. Around the world, wherever there was a sale to be made, similar events reflected the postwar world's No. 1 economic phenomenon: though pulverized by the armies of East and West a short nine years ago, West Germany today is out to conquer the conquerors in the field of trade...
...trees on the western Pacific island of Yap, but nobody bothers to pick it until Burt Lancaster makes port. He blackmails the poor natives into picking coconuts, and even becomes their king. But greed and lust soon pull the kingdom down, and the stage is set for love to conquer all. To satisfy the censors, somebody has to take the rap for Burt's misdemeanors, but by this time the audience will probably be too heavily stunned with Technicolor and improbabilities to wonder why the villain should turn out to be German militarism...
Again this year Museum expeditions will set out in search of new anthropological words to conquer. Present plans call for Peabody operations of one kind or another this year on all the continents except Australia. Some of these projects will undoubtedly be highly organized expeditions with full staffs, others the intensive researches of single scholars. But all will be helping to push forward the frontiers of anthropological knowledge. To this goal of a better Understanding of man and his ways, the anthropologist is dedicated, whether he works with pen or pick-axe.The Mount Carmel Skull...
...when high enough and tough enough, measure men. In three decades, at least 16 men died trying to scale Everest, and eleven expeditions failed to reach its 29,002-foot virgin summit, although at least six men got within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that led to victory...