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Word: conquering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the historian Eusebius, in 312 A.D. the Emperor Constantine saw a flaming cross and the legend, in Greek, "By this conquer," in the noonday sky near Rome. It is said to have led to his conversion to Christianity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 23, 1948 | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...maneuvering and by a confusing war of a hundred skirmishes with real battles. Although, in years to come, fighting might break out again & again, its probable pattern was "fixed: the Jews were too tough, too smart and too vigorous for the divided and debilitated Arab world to conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...conquer the Arabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...order in the Italian state ... It is a problem which must inevitably be solved on the basis of force, of relation of material force . . . It is impossible to disarm an insurrection when it springs from political or class necessity. Sans-culottes* found arms to storm the Bastille and conquer proud Versailles . . . They did what they had to do ... The nations will break away from Western Union as the workers take power, break capitalism's predominance, and the people advance along paths of democracy and socialism using all necessary means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Yes, Petkoff | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...appropriated every technique of Japan's old masters. Then he opened his own highly unorthodox art school. For the edification of his students, he kept the school yard crammed with pets. Nature, Kyosai had decided, was more instructive than convention. He always knew that the eagle would eventually conquer the wind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Eagle & the God | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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