Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little to the 2500 sons of Harvard. It made no difference who was at right tackle or who at left halfback. The significant fact was that the dusky group of figures racing through signals in the center of the field was a Crimson eleven about to embark for the conquest of New Haven...
...father, William, left the Methodist ministry in 1865 in order to succor the lost sheep of London's East End. Thirteen years later, William and his wife Catherine* whipped their missions into a military organization. Their Army grew phenomenally as it advanced from post to post. The conquest of the U. S. dated from...
...rise of the Mahdi, the Sudan was conquered by British and Egyptian troops, under the able leadership of Sir H. H. (afterwards Lord) Kitchener. The next year, 1899, an Anglo-Egyptian condominum in the Sudan was established. Under the terms of this agreement, Britain claimed, "by right of conquest," a share in the legislation and administration of the country. This claim has ever since been asserted (TIME, Aug. 25). Moreover, during this period, Britain has rescued Egypt from the hands of the Turks, under whom she was a "tribute-paying viceroyalty"; and, from a British Protectorate, has made...
...latter campaign, which ended in 1898, an Anglo-Egyptian condominium to rule the Sudan was established. Britain declared at the time, and has never deviated from her contention, that the Sudan, "having been reconquered by joint military and financial efforts of Great Britain and Egypt, claims by right of conquest to share in the legislation and administration of the country." That is why the Sudan is known today as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
Capable son of a capable father, John Hays Hammond Jr. sailed in to the port of New York back from a fresh conquest. He came from Rome, ancient city of the Caesars and brought back a triumph...