Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There are still new worlds for Glasgow to conquer," said George V, "There is for example the southern half of the American Continent from which my dear son the Prince of Wales recently returned and which I believe will one day be bound to Britain by close commercial ties...
...Canton Government of 1926 launched a war to conquer all China, conquered it (TIME, June 11, 1928) and is now the Chinese Government at Nanking known to President Hoover. Mr. Chen is now back in Canton exactly where he started in 1926. He even holds the same office, Foreign Minister. He has broken with the Chinese whom President Hoover knows as President of China and whose Government is at Nanking, wasp- waisted Marshal Chiang Kaishek. Last week Mr. Chen said of Marshal Chiang: "He has a medieval mind. He has begun to think of China as his personal property...
...discussed religion and world politics. His wife is mission-educated. So are many of his advisers. His men are well disciplined. They are executed instantly if caught smoking opium. General Ho is a Communist and objects to being called a bandit. He predicts that Communistic principles will eventually conquer all China...
...literary merit of the work is often lost or must be passed without consideration. Thus it is well on into the second term before mere line for line interpretation is cast aside, and the more beneficial and interesting topics are discussed. The time now expended in vain efforts to conquer Joliet could be more suitably used for the earlier development of ease in translation. This would permit rapid translation from preparatory school methods of conducting the course to the more spirited and individual manner which characterizes the true college curriculum...
Frequent in London lately have been scenes where British stockholders heckled and insulted a management unable to return profits. Last week in London there was another such shocking meeting, more shocking because the stockholders were those of the venerable Hudson's Bay Co. Ltd., whose ships have successfully conquered stormy arctic waters for 261 years, whose trappers and coureurs de bois opened the Canadian wilderness. Not successfully did Hudson's Bay Co. conquer its stockholders' storm. When the meeting broke up, Charles Vincent Sale was no longer governor. But, eyes flashing, he had said...