Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless, others less active have sought for Hades in the Sun, in Mars, or in the Moon, where no one could conceivably send them on a party or conquest or exploration. The reliable accounts furnished by Homer and Virgil have been largely disregarded, although as late as the thirteenth century Dante found that the devil was still doing business at the old stand in spite of the fact that Inferno seems to have been going through the Glacial Period just then. But now science has rediscovered what the ancients knew all the time...
...other party lacks sincerity in its peace talk. Shen Hung-Ying attacked Canton upon receiving secret orders from the Northern Government. Fortunately, we defeated him and he is being pursued by our army. Falsely they talk peace to slacken our preparations, but in fact they dream of military conquest...
...probable conquest of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a peculiar disease, the microbe of which is transmitted by the wood tick, and which is practically confined to Montana, Idaho and other northwestern states, is forecast by the discovery of a protective vaccine against the disease by Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, the distinguished Japanese pathologist of the Rockefeller Institute, who, in collaboration with Dr. Simeon B. Wolbaeh, of Harvard Medical School, has been studying the fever at Hamilton, Montana, for several months. Nine Japanese of Missoula voluntarily submitted to injections of the vaccine, although warned that its effects might be serious...
...assorted super-criminals. The reason for their dislike of the League is obscure, in as much as it is depicted as a majestically futile assemblage. The story brandishes first the dagger of mystery and then the scalpel of satire. Both are equally keen, and the result is a complete conquest of the reader...
...course it is to be expected that the feminist leaders will soon be on Mrs. Mahoney's trail. They will want the clue to her methods of subduing the native tribesmen; they will probably ask her to lead campaigns of conquest all over the world. Her mining successes have provided her with funds for a great crusade; her versatility has been proved; and if her leadership can be enlisted, their causes is assured of victory, Mr. Shaw and the Wyf of Bathe will be vindicated, and the Superman will have...