Word: conquered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinary narrative. My olfactory nerves tingled with the stench of Calcutta; the malignity and frustration were outside my own door. Man dreams to conquer the space about him; yet he cannot provide an abode in which his kind can live well and die decently...
...were no Russians to defeat. Ségur describes in familiar scenes how the Grande Armée advanced into silent wastes; the aristocrats burned their houses and took their serfs with them to the East. Napoleon snapped: "Do you think I have come all this way just to conquer these huts?" The Russians were inspired-not by liberty-but by what was literally a holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves...
Painters have ransacked the heavens and earth for inspiration, recorded the sea in all its moods, discovered the bird's-eye view centuries before the airplane. Only recently has the artist begun trying to conquer a new world-the vast reaches under the sea. Last month Canadian-born Marcel Cardinal. 38, now busily skindiving for fresh impressions off the French Riviera, exhibited his underwater seascapes in London's Matthiesen Gallery. This week Russell Swanson, 29, a U.S. skindiver, is displaying his water-soaked paintings in Philadelphia's William C. Blood gallery. For both, the underwater world...
...people who like their work so well." To Dr. Simons, first man to have so long and clear a view of untwinkling stars, it is a matter of man's destiny: "This is one of the greatest challenges that has ever faced mankind -an external challenge, to conquer our environment...
...moon, spins something referred to as the universe. Although Ursa Major and Mars are a long way from earth, a rocket will probably reach the moon some time this year. The moon and what spins beyond it would be reached considerably sooner if this nation's attempts to conquer space were better organized and better financed...