Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach E. L. Farrell addressed the gathering and outlined the training rules. "The first and one of the biggest obstacles of the squad in the early season is the conquest of that old rival studies," declared Farrell, "and we must strive to overcome this factor which always forces us to lose some of our best prospects...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...Department was happy to announce, many years ago, the conquest and suppression of the last of the headhunters in the Philippines. Yet last week brought a report from the Islands that a small epidemic of head-hunting has broken out. The Ilngote* tribe...
...have no fear of annexation by treaty, still less of annexation by conquest, but I do fear the insidious daily penetration of Yankee foodstuffs, Yankee clothing, Yankee cereals, Yankee periodicals, Yankee 'movies,' Yankee ideas and Yankee ideals...
...Baden-Baden, Germany, the kings gathered for their last stand. Some in black, some in white, their swart or pallid queens beside them, they saw their knights sally into the ruffle and broil of the encounter to win a momentary conquest, or to fall, dying the death that is reserved for privilege in defeat. It was a lean day that did not see a dozen monarchs overcome. Upon the neat battlefields, the gods of the nations were at war: Sir George Thomas for England, Spielmann for Austria, Rosselli for Italy, Jacques Mieses for Germany, Colle for Belgium, Alexander Alekhine...