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Word: conquering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twenty-two. You are then more competent to judge the honesty and falsity of man. Nature has thrown a wall of maidenly modesty around you. Preserve that and not let your affection be trifled with while too young by any youthful flirt who is in search of hearts to conquer...

Author: By Edmund B. Games jr., | Title: Couthness | 1/15/1958 | See Source »

...fancily tragic, The Rope Dancers is nowhere facilely sentimental; it nowhere stoops to conquer. And beyond a certain feeling for character, 43-year-old Playwright Wishengrad in his first play has his own determined way of looking at things. Once he sees only what is there, it should prove rewarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 2, 1957 | 12/2/1957 | See Source »

...necessary to institute a push of the dimensions of the Manhattan Project, but some sort of combined administration for the missile-rocket development is needed. We may not look seriously on petty inter-service squabbles, but when they affect our attempts to conquer space, they must be controlled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Earthbound | 10/18/1957 | See Source »

...Worlds to Conquer. Fresh from a financial knockout of Promoter James D. Norris, the promise of $255,000 of television money and 45% of the gate safely in his pocket, Ray was as cocky as ever. A blue, short-billed cap perched on his handsome head, a two-tone windbreaker zipped up against the mist from the lake, he smiled benevolently at his subjects. "After 17 years of boxing, all fights are the same," said Sugar with unlimited self-assurance. "The burden of proof is on Basilio. I've got the title, and he's got to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roar of the Crowd | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

...most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse, hard by the sprawling Krupp works, he was ceremoniously presented with the keys to a new $2,000,000 research center that will soon house 200 busy scientists, discovering new worlds for Firma Fried. Krupp to conquer. Gathered around him in the center's library, the directors of every Krupp branch and subsidiary throughout Germany raised their glasses and drank a toast in 1955 Moselle to Alfried Krupp von Bohlen's first half century-and the bright future ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The House That Krupp Rebuilt | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

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