Word: conquering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...landscape today. Special ships from France brought the volunteer files du Roi (the King's girls) up the river to marry the lonely habitants and populate New France. In 1759 the river betrayed the colony. The British were able to sail their fleet up its broad stream, conquer Quebec and end the French regime in Canada. But some 50 years later, the river's strategic role was reversed. It served as a protective moat, helped to turn back American forces trying to annex Canada to the newly formed...
Like DeMille, Goldwyn is enthusiastically spreading out in his movie as if he were an ambitious youngster with new Hollywood fields to conquer. A foxy lone wolf-no partners, no board of directors, no bank financing-Goldwyn probably knows as much about Hollywood and its half century of history as any man alive. But another Goldwynism covers the situation. "I'm never going to write my autobiography," he says, "as long as I live...
...collected millions, carrying polio research through the most expensive part of its job. Dr. Salk, of course, feels that he must continue research to perfect his vaccine. If the U.S. Public Health Service supports his work, as it certainly should, then the March of Dimes organization should mobilize to conquer some other dread disease...
...expect to dramatize the slow and careful final work on Salk vaccine, it can easily bring the tragedy of leukemia, rheumatic fever, or some other disease to the hearts of the people. Responding in this appeal in their generous and sympathetic manner, Americans can help the March of Dimes conquer another health menace...
Times changed for the better during the 1850's, when the Hasty Pudding Club finally moved over from Hollis. Stoughton's specter quickened with this great honor and in 1852 sent forth Horatio Alger to conquer the world. Soon Phillips Brooks was inspired to inscribe his initials on a fireplace. When another student painted an owl, a frog, a gull, and a turtle on the doors of room 25, the college carpenter threatened to remove the exhibit and fine the artist, but President Sparks intervened, proving himself a patron of the arts. The Stoughton renaissance culminated in a final burst...