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Word: conquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear out the Reds." When Britain broke relations with Russia and the Blue Shirts faded, the Commander announced that Britain had become a "vassal" of the U.S. The future looked blue, he said, unless Britain could "build up beneath her flag an Empire, currency and credit to conquer and save the world." Among the many people who do not like Commander Locker-Lampson is Captain Cunningham-Reid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Old Boys | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Bearded Soil. Farmer Faulkner is sure, on the basis of these results, that abandonment of the moldboard plow would result in immensely richer crops-without artificial fertilizer, lime, insecticides or even cultivating. His method, says he, would ultimately conquer insects (because bugs would find the crops less tasty) and weeds (because they would be killed off as they came up; weed seeds would not be buried and stored for future trouble, as they are by the plow). To the anticipated objection by most farmers that Faulkner's "bearded" soil would be harder to handle than clean plowed land, Faulkner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Down With the Plow | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with him, conquer with him the tough assault-training course known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Commandos | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...expanding economy with high levels of income and employment can remain a free society. A society that falls to conquer service depression and widespread employment will not endure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hansen Emphasizes Importance of Social Security for Prosperous Post-War World | 4/30/1943 | See Source »

Arrogant, deceitful, a complete little Nazi, Emil flaunts his swastika, spits on the U.S., spies for the Führer, tries a divide-&-conquer technique on the house hold, plots to break up his uncle's marriage to a Jewish schoolteacher. When he almost murders his little cousin, his patient elders are ready to give up. But they ask themselves what chance there is of rehabilitating 12,000,000 kids if they can not cope with one. They do a good deal of ferreting into Emil's youthfully warped nature. Emil himself, as the curtain falls, shows signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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