Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compounds were prepared under the direction of Professor A. B. Loevenhart of Wisconsin. He believes the conquest of African sleeping sickness would be equivalent to the discovery of a continent. But more than Africa is at stake. Before the War the tsetse fly was unknown in Arabia; in recent years it has turned up there. Also strange new diseases of camels have developed in Palestine, similar to sleeping sickness; caused by trypanosomes. Finally, laymen are startled when Pharmacologist Stratman-Thomas tells them that: "In prehistoric times this fly lived in the Americas and fossils of some twenty-odd species have...
Jovial Neptune Doumergue promised, last week, in a mellifluent oration that France will never loose her sea dogs in a war of conquest, will employ them solely as sea watch dogs...
Died. Basil King (pen name of William Benjamin King), 69, onetime Canadian minister of the Episcopal Church, later famed as blind author of opti-mystical novels (The Inner Shrine, The Conquest of Fear, Street Called Straight); after a four-year illness; in Cambridge, Mass...
...devil incarnate in an Indian fight. Fremont, generous, press-agented the unassuming Kit, who helped him capture territory from the Mexicans and make California a part of the U. S. As a lieutenant, Kit took part in Fremont's quarrel with General Kearney in the California conquest. The U. S. Government was unwilling to confirm Kit's commission; and thus his two years' service to his country under Fremont went unpaid and unrecognized. Kit regarded the Army as an unmixed curse to the country. Kit was never intrigued by the California gold rush. He was too busy...
...well known Boston Lawyer, scheduled to appear next Tuesday at 4 o'clock in the Faculty Room of the Union. Mr. Storey was president of the American Bar Association for many years and has written several books on legal subjects. "The Reform of Legal Procedure" and "The Conquest of the Philippines", are two of his best known works. He is expected to discuss either the Phillipines, dealing especially with their independence, or the Pan-American policy of the United States. The latter topic has been given a great deal of prominence during the last month as a result...