Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canton gave the Council of Generals pause. It is China's fourth largest city and the "Mother of Revolutions." Generalissimo Chiang got his start in Canton under "China's George Washington," the late sainted Dr. Sun Yatsen. It was from Canton that Chiang marched north to conquer all China-partly with the aid of Russian and Chinese propagandists trained in Moscow who fomented disunion in his Army's path. Marching on to victory, the Generalissimo paid scant attention for several years to the seeds of Sovietism which sprouted and grew strong among Chinese in his wake...
...with the Government!" "Glory Bedecked Opponents." Cannily the Chancellor, who knows that Germany is in no condition to withstand a preventive war launched from France today, hailed in his speech "the French soldier, our old glory-bedecked opponent!" "I, together with all my followers, de-cline." he cried, "to conquer the people of a strange nation-who would not love us anyway. . . . "German youth is marching . . . not to demonstrate against France, but to evince that political determination . . . necessary for throwing down Communism!" Significance. From a domestic standpoint President von Hindenburg's dissolution of the Diets of all the German...
...Habsburg Emperors gained at various times control of over half Europe by the practical but not very inspiring habit of marrying heiresses, but there was one time when Austria was truly great, when Vienna saved Europe. In 1683 the Turks under Sultan Mohammed IV made a last attempt to conquer Western Europe. An army of 400,000 men swept into Hungary and across the Danube to camp under the gates of Vienna. They never got inside. Vienna's defenses were in the hands of a peruked gallant, Count Rüdiger von Starhemberg, who had under...
...fact that no war could come which could ever give us more honor than we acquired in the last one. For it was greater honor to hold off, bravely, courageously, valiantly, a superior force for four and one-half years, than it was an honor for 20 nations to conquer one nation...
...after James Cromwell persuaded the widows of the two Dodge brothers to dispose of the automobile company to Chrysler for $160,000,000-biggest cash sale in Wall Street history. "I was only 27 years old. I was as conceited as Alexander and, like him, craved new worlds to conquer...