Word: conquering
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...long effort to conquer space has brought Braque in his final years to his recent Studio VIII, which incorporates the whole range of past paintings, studio props and objects. His new central symbol is an anonymous bird. It is, like all Braque's subjects, the visual image of his outstanding qualities-taste and purity. "In the old days," Braque explains, "I used guitars, tables, carafes, sand and wallpaper to express what I had to say. Now it is the bird which helps me to explain myself." With a smile he adds, "I started on the ground...
...external danger is almost as great. Tired members of the Line report that the forces of Phillistia, having been unable to conquer the line, have decided to join. It is perhaps this current "joining" which is most prominent at present...
...confidence your life inspires." But now for the first time in his life J.D.R. Jr. was already beginning to explore the meanings of warmer words than confidence. Awkwardly, at the age of 20, he had learned how to dance. "I made up my mind that I had to conquer my shyness. I had to get a measure of social ease," he wrote home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street...
...mother's side. Maggie herself is bouncy and bossy enough to have been a queen bee at Vassar ('22). She is no beauty, but to some masculine eyes she flashes with the radiance of a "Fourth-of-July sparkler." From Vassar. Maggie marches forth to conquer Broadway, and is so chagrined by her failure that she quickly settles for marriage to Dexter Bradfield, 6 ft. 2 of Harvard muscle and inarticulateness...
...eats up millions of tons of precious Chinese earth each year, and contributes to droughts by draining the eroded earth. Though Chinese peasants have dreamed longingly of a day when its muddy waters would run crystal-clear to the sea, the "River of Sorrow" has defied every attempt to conquer...