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...young town was repeatedly overrun by the Golden Horde of Tartars, one of whose reasons for coming back again & again was Moscow's women, much coveted on the world slave markets. Sultan Ahmed I is said to have asked his eldest son one day: "My Osman, wilt thou conquer Crete for me?" Whereupon Osman replied: "What have I to do with Crete? I will conquer the land of the white Muscovite maidens...
Mildred Didrikson Zaharias, long No. 1 U.S. tomboy, is always looking for new worlds to conquer. Before she had completely established her title as the greatest woman athlete in history, she set two records in the 1932 Olympics. Once she scored 106 points in a basketball game. In the past two years, she has won every top golf title open to an amateur except the U.S. Women's Open, and she has won her last 17 tournaments...
...details were in hand. They found their home windowless because of a near miss by an Allied bomb, plaster crumbling, plumbing insufficient. With Levin H. Campbell, III '48 and Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45 and Jean Andrey from ISS as aides to the original trio, the staff set out to conquer the terrain...
Feeblemindedness, malformations of the human body, tuberculosis and other diseases are a test of man's ingenuity. Many of the so-called incurables of the past are today among our outstanding citizens and humanitarians. To conquer the so-called unconquerable is man's highest...
...determined scientist always has new worlds to conquer. Professor Auguste Piccard, who broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...