Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fertilizer was added to the root so to speak, when he read Prescott's account of the conquest of the country. And after all, he must be a hardened sophisticate who would not thrill over the expedition of Pizarro with his mere handful of men, an expedition of mingled courage and treachery that reads like a fairly tale...
...Conquest of Peru," Professor Haring, Harvard...
...charges that Germany is guilty of the greatest of all wars, we, the German people, repudiate in all its phases. Not envy, hate, nor eagerness for conquest caused us to resort to weapons. War was a last resort for us, and the requiring of the greatest sacrifices of the entire people was the last means of maintaining our prestige against a host of enemies...
Concerning the instinctive basis for laughter, Dr. Bolton said: "Laughter is a form of expression denoting the culmination of some conquest or struggle . . . also the expression of a vicarious triumph. ... It is a phenomenon of triumph. . . . What we generally call laughter is the expression of a coarse emotion which, as culture increases, is reformed to the form of a smile. Smiling, therefore, is not the expression of an opposite emotion, as Professor Aveling avers, but simply a refined and secondary development of laughter...
...hundredfold. To a greater or a lesser degree they have begun to grow up. At the moment of departure there may be in the heart of the man who leaves the College doubt of his own power, even among the manifestations of trust and the symbols of early success. Conquest of this doubt and proof of power lies in a future of uncertainty and difficulty...