Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is clearly a need for the closer faculty-student contact that non-honors tutorial would bring to the five large departments. The Student Council plan can go far to remedy the situation. Such a program is important enough to conquer any remaining obstacles...
Only Yale is left for the varsity track team to conquer after the Crimson won its fourth straight meet of the spring Saturday, defeating Dartmouth, 89 to 51. The local freshmen also romped to victory over the Stadium greensward...
Then he flew on to conquer Washington. Though the Bataan did not land until after midnight, 12,000 were on hand to welcome him. Among them were his critics in the highest brass: Defense Secretary George Marshall and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. On hand, too, was Harry Truman's military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan, who shook Mac Arthur's hand and retreated, announcing with some relief: "Well, that was simple...
...Mexican War, wrote in one blistering letter: "I do not desire to place myself in the most perilous of all positions: a fire upon my rear, from Washington, and the fire, in front, from the Mexicans." President Polk finally managed to gag Scott, who went on to conquer Mexico City, return a hero, be nominated for President by the Whigs in 1852. He lost to Franklin Pierce. He continued in the service, was Abraham Lincoln's ranking general until he was retired in November 1861, aged...
Last week Lieut. Hodgkin, an elderly party (42) as the stunt-flying business goes, pulled on his long underwear, loaded his plane with blankets and took off to conquer Washington's sullen, 14,408-ft. Mount Rainier, fourth highest peak in the continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later...