Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, newsmen pounded out sentimental obits on the end of U.S. football's Big Game. Why had Army chosen to drop Notre Dame from its schedule? The consensus: Army, reduced to peacetime status, just didn't have the arms & the men to conquer Notre Dame...
Kali has been in India at least 50 centuries, long before Hinduism, which gradually assimilated her. A few years after the Prophet Mohamed sent Islam forth to conquer the world, Moslems appeared in India. After the 11th Century they were masters, sometimes in fact but more often in name, of the subcontinent. Some Moslems in India today descend from the conquerors; more are the children of Islam's vigorous proselytizing, and none the less fanatical for that...
Enlarged facilities have eliminated the need for the two separate lines that students had to conquer last year, and therefore waiting time has decreased, George E. Cole, Coop president, explained yesterday...
...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...