Word: conquers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who itch to conquer and to kill...
...jealousies. Instead the marines concentrated their potshotting not on Hearst but on General MacArthur. The marines' argument (which had to be laundered before it could be printed): MacArthur generally lands on big islands, where there is space to maneuver, while marines get the small, heavily fortified islands to conquer...
...pace for three quarters, tired badly, finished a bad last in a field of five. But to U.S. fans the try made him something more than twice the man they thought he was-and now he would be really great if he could conquer the boards in this week's K. of C. Mile...
...Germans, it now appears, are not likely to conquer the physical U.S. But they conquered the minds of U.S. educators long ago. The German doctrines of scientific pedagogy and of the squirrelish accumulation of facts (Ph.D.) are still the U.S. fashion. Anyone curious to know what is wrong with U.S. education would do well to examine briefly a new book titled A Basic Vocabulary of Elementary School Children (Macmillan...
...would run the Pacific War from now on was opened wide last week. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, midway in the task of liberating the Philippines, had not even waited for the mopping-up to begin before he made a bold bid for fresh fields to conquer: "Our motto becomes 'On to Tokyo.' We are ready in this veteran and proven command when called upon...