Word: conquered
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...Time Problem. Other stars may have better planets. But a handicap to interstellar voyages is that they must conquer not only space but time. Even the nearest stars are light-years away, and each light-year is six trillion miles. If a space ship traveled at 50,000 m.p.h. (high speed in the solar system), it would take many thousands of years to reach a nearby star. Its crew would die of old age before the voyage had really gotten under...
Johns Hopkins Science Review (Mon. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont). First of three programs on "How Will We Conquer Space...
Though National sells its products in 92 foreign countries, President Stanley Charles Allyn thinks that it still has worlds to conquer. Last week he set out to conquer at least a new frontier. For about $1,000,000, National will buy 80% control of the Computer Research Corp., a Los Angeles company which produces small and relatively inexpensive ($35,000 to $245,000) electronic computers for the armed forces and industry. In Computer Research, Allyn is buying a big stake in the future of electronic brains. With the help of Computer's staff, he hopes to turn out electronic...
...equipped with desks, typewriters and mimeograph machine, Adlai Stevenson, wearing a most un-Western Homburg. set out last week to conquer the West. This is a critical battleground, for the ten states which Stevenson plans to visit have 83 electoral votes, and though nine of the states went Democratic in 1948 most of them were very close...
...game hunters as Theodore Roosevelt and Alexander ("Tiger Man") Siemel encountered jaguars hardly smaller than the fiercest tigers of Bengal. Nine years ago, out to win the 116,000 square miles of this wild Brazilian west. President Getulio Vargas set up the government-financed Central Brazil Foundation and ordered: "Conquer the wilderness. Colonize the area...