Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...study of American competitive sport are to be accepted, collegiate circles will not be the last to foresee the possibility of a future invasion of professionalism upon fields that have thus far been represented mainly by the amateur. It was not such a far cry to the professional conquest of hockey, while the present invasion of football, although not yet a conquest by any means, is an established fact. Professionalism steps in where angels fear to tread as is evidenced by recent attempts to commercialize even the most commonplace dance marathon, let alone the attempted subsidization of better accepted sports...
Without increasing taxes Banker Soong magically increased the Canton tax yield from one to ten million dollars per month. He has said that he did it by cutting down graft, by rigid Harvard budgeting. On ten million dollars per month the Nationalists launched their successful war of conquest, financed additionally for a time by grants from Soviet Russia, a state with which they soon quarreled, are still quarreling...
...Interesting for prehistoric Indian traces, present Indians, pueblos, Spanish conquest, somnolescence, artists, cemetery, old Governor's Palace (now a museum), scenery of Ben Hur (which the late Governor Lew Wallace wrote), turquoise and silver jewelry, September Indian fiesta, hospitality...
...eyes of the People of the U. S. are turned longingly towards Canada and her gigantic unexplored natural resources and their hearts are filled with envy and covetousness, . . . after terrific economic pressure our neighbor now plans the actual conquest of Canada, and waits but the hour to strike...
This dire plan for the conquest of Canada was not the only secret information which the newspaper with a Heart discovered last week. This other warning was printed on the front page...