Search Details

Word: conquerors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Because the conqueror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...clock ticked away. The struggle wore on. Sometimes the tide of battle would turn against the Vagabond, sometimes for him, but he was a good loser and a generous conqueror. The minute hand dragged by the eleven, nearly exhausted. Only five more minutes and then three more credits, and Vag could take it easy until next week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 8/21/1942 | See Source »

...general of high rank had committed hara-kiri in Manila. His body was publicly carried to a crematorium while soldiers lined the streets. Next day a special plane bearing an urn of ashes took off from Manila. Homma was not seen again in the Philippines and General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, succeeded-according to Tokyo's own announcement-to the command previously held by Homma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: LETTERS | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Shankaracharya, religious reformer and young genius of the 9th Century A.D., "traveled all over India ... as a conqueror of the mind and in argument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: East Meets West | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Serb. The once-obscure Balkan officer who has thus far successfully challenged the modern world's greatest conqueror was born 47 years ago in Chachak, Serbia, in the craggy lands which he now clasps. His parents died when he was a child, and he was raised by an uncle, a musical Serbian colonel. Draja Mihailovich plays the mandolin excellently. He entered Belgrade's Serbian Military Academy at 15. He has been a lifelong soldier, an officer who got his training under fire. He is also profoundly a Serb. For those who know the Serbs, that fact alone would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Eagle of Yugoslavia | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

Previous | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | Next