Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although man may never realize Jules Verne's imaginative story of a "Journey to the Center of the Earth", he may succeed in the first stage of it. "Air" has been "conquered" recently, "Water" long ago, but it remains for the engineers of the future to complete the conquest of "Earth...
...runs the cut and dried despatch announcing one more conquest of nature, opening up a new era for trans-Saharan travel and trade, and connecting the French of the Mediterranean with the colonies of the West Coast...
...picture is one to fire the imagination, it also touches the funny bone. The Conquest of the Sahara, the Desert giving up its Secrets, Months of Careful Planning and Preparation,--and five earnest-faced Frenchmen sitting stiffly at the wheels of their caterpillars, staring straight ahead and bumping over the sand at ten miles an hour. It is a delightfully incongruous blending of poetry and prose, of the sublime and the ridiculous. Phineas Fogg himself, with all his mathematical intensity of purpose, would never have girdled the earth from North to South instead of from East to West...
...series of misfortunes and could end only in an avalanche of disaster, so it has seemed with Ireland. As an historian said of the British Isles in the thirteenth century "Wales was conquered, Scotland unconquered, Ireland half-conquered". With the anomalous situation growing out of this half conquest it is safe to say that the Irish problem began, and like the play it has become, through differences of temperament, recrimination, abuse of power; muddy thinking, stubbornness and sentimentalism more and more complex, increasingly confused. "At length, on December 4, 1922," says the chronicler, "Parliament passed the Irish Constitution Bill...
...every man on the team outplayed himself and credit cannot hardly be divided. The truth is that in spite of odds, or injuries, or anything else, the team won by sheer will to win, where no critic believed triumph was likely, and so added one more splendid conquest to the list of Harvard's victories over Yale. The motto of the parade last Thursday has changed. "We did beat Yale...