Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Main obstacle to Engineer Miller's complete conquest of U. S. radio is the fixed belief in the radio business that the listening public, conditioned to "live" shows, will never learn to respect recorded entertainment. But Engineer Miller is old enough (48) to remember a similar objection 30 years ago to the motion picture...
Major Sargent's charges, fresh from their conquest over Yale last week; had a close call in Saturday night's game with Danvers, which they won in an overtime by the score...
...tiny (210 sq. mi.), windy, rocky island called Guam was acquired by the U. S. in 1898 as part of its Spanish conquest. With the liberation of the Philippine Commonwealth, it will become the easternmost U. S. possession, 3,300 mi. beyond Hawaii, only 1,500 mi. from Manila. Regardless of the Philippines' status as a trade protectorate (which Franklin Roosevelt has recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense...
Instruments with which Harvard's engineering scientists are pushing man's conquest of his physical environment,--among atoms and microorganisms, soils and metals, radio and electricity, in sound, the air, and motion,--will be on display to members of the University and their guests in an open house tomorrow night from 7 to 11 o'clock, sponsored by the Harvard Engineering Society...
...fellow priest, Monsignor Luigi Grasselli, two of the most adventurous mountain climbers in Italian history, who first blazed the trail in 1890. Another monument to the Pope's Alpine enthusiasm: a stone tablet in a little church at Macugnaga, at the foot of Monte Rosa, celebrating the first conquest of its highest peak (15,217 ft.) from the Italian side-most daring of the 200 Alpine ascents made during his lifetime...