Word: conquering
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...flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
...Francisco Chronicle's Critic Alfred Frankenstein couldn't wait to get to his typewriter. After glowing words for Violinist Spivakovsky,* Frankenstein wrote: "This is conceivably the greatest violin concerto since Brahms . . . noble, rich and splendid . . . blazing display music for [a] soloist to conquer...
...nomination for Man of the Year is Mohandas Gandhi. In a warring world, here is a man of peace, whose mastery of body by mind has enabled him to conquer the British .Empire without firing a shot...
Cold with rage, Foreign Affairs Chairman Charles Eaton argued back. "We might just as well face the fact that Russia proposes to conquer the world by infiltration, by revolution or by force of arms. . . . If we don't send this aid the price will be much more than this." The committeemen engaged in six hours of futile wrangling before they sent the bill to the House...
...personally do not fear gangrene because I feel that the progress of medical researchers will finally conquer this heretofore neglected disease (arteriosclerosis...