Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troops. At most points, owing to their open tactics, they were repulsed with heavy losses while the French troops suffered comparatively few casualties. The Riffian chief was presumed to be making a bid to capture the town of Fez. Premier Painlevé disavowed all intention of extending operations to conquest of the Riff territory...
...League of the Americas (not unlike the League of Nations), the outlawing of wars of conquest, enforcement of peaceful solutions of all disputes, a "Pan-American Court of Justice," extension of the Monroe Doctrine, freedom of transit, regulation of immigration, rules for treaty-making−such were the proposals made, last week, to Pan-America in 30 conventions for the codification of American international...
...manuscripts of competitors for the Lloyd McKim Garrison Prize of $125 must be submitted to the Department of English by tomorrow. The prize will be awarded for the best poem on the subject "The Conquest...
...Singapore base. To talk about this country's being provocative is sheer nonsense. Out of 352 warships building or projected, our contribution is 20. We have no lust of conquest; we have no desire for more territory; all we want is peace to protect and develop our trade and the territory we have got. No gesture is needed to show that Britain is a peaceable country...
...Crock of Gold, Here Arc Ladies, The Charwoman's Daughter, Songs from the Clay, The Demi-Gods, Reincarnation Dcirdrc, In the Land of Youth. †England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the four kingdoms of the British Isles, existed side by side at the time of the Norman Conquest (1066). In 1169, Henry II forced Wales to acknowledge his suzerainty and Kdward I (1272-1307) completed the conquest of that kingdom. When Eleanor, his Queen, gave birth to a son in Carnarvon, a Welsh town, he was presented to the Welsh as a native prince "who could speak no English." Later...