Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Boomed Il Duce: "Cinematography ranks with the printing press as a formidable instrument for the conquest and diffusion of culture...
...said Wilson to House in January, 1917. Three months later, the same resolute energy he had expended on maintaining the peace, was doggedly diverted to the pursuit of war. The die cast, Wilson was out to win, and not so much a military victory as a moral conquest of internationalism over autocratic nationalism. But the tangible military victory being prerequisite to the moral conquest, Wilson passionately concerned himself with such tangibles as gold, food, fighting men. And lest he or his people flag, Balfour was sent over, a French mission was sent over, to emphasize the terrific need, to encourage...
...Conquest of Mexico," Professor Baring, Harvard...
...Conquest of Mexico," Professor Haring, Harvard...
...aversions are: Immoral students who study the conquest of Providence flappers more closely than the conquests of Macedonian Alexander; football rally stickers pasted on certain parts of Brown's ill-proportioned equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius; intoxicating liquors, which Parson Faunce refuses to believe his young gentlemen drink; sexy modern novels, instanced by the case of English Instructor Percy ("Plastic Age") Marks who was asked to resign when his college novel reached Parson Faunce's sedate office. Percy Marks complied...