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Word: conquers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 11/7/1941 | See Source »

...Poland, Dr. Rauschning wrote The Revolution of Nihilism, explaining what the Nazis were really up to. In The Voice of Destruction he reported his conversations with Hitler, told how Germany plans to conquer the world. In The Conservative Revolution he pictured the kind of world he had hoped to see restored when he became a Nazi. It was substantially the world of 1914, continuing the humanistic tradition of European culture where it was interrupted by World War I. Now he does not expect to see that world again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: World War III? | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...took Princeton's Tiger soccer team six quarters to down an invading Crimson Varsity 2-1 last Saturday on a sloppy, water-logged Poe Field. Not until after the half could the home team get started but then it slowly raised enough steam to conquer the Harvard booters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Soccer Varsity Defeats Crimson, 2-1 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

With two wins, a tie, and a defeat to its record for the campaign, the soccer team searches for new fields to conquer and embarks for Princeton this morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Tackles Strong Nassau Eleven | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

...powers of darkness conquer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Whose War? | 9/15/1941 | See Source »

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