Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to international law, more-over, territory may be acquired either by cession and conquest or by discovery and occupation, and discovery surely gives the United States a prior and just claim on Wrangel Land. Stefansson, on the other hand, states that the United States has allowed her claim to lapse by not occupying her possession and exercising dominion over it,--and the polar bears. And we are forced to admit that the statement is true, since the United States has not, to the best of our knowledge, established there a Governor General and stuff, nor yet, strangely enough, attempted...
...concert, the House of Lords may soon be opening its deliberations with a performance of "The Mikado", and all political speeches made in the style of Artemus Ward. Before long statesmanship will consist in perpetual conferring at attractively situated resorts. The nine Muses bid fair to make a complete conquest of the seven great Powers...
...more than proved by what the United States offers. His speech epitomizes what everyone would like to feel about America, but what we have been recently led to doubt. "We harbor no fears; we have no sordid ends to serve; we suspect no enemy; we contemplate or apprehend no conquest. We only wish to do with you that fine, nobler thing which no nation can do alone". The altruism of America is unquestionable...
...face. During the past year the Germans have turned out 145,000 tons of dye-stuffs, 10,000 tons more than in any previous twelve months. Production is further expanding at the rate of 15,000 tons per annum, and the manufacturers are planning an intensive campaign for the conquest of the British and American markets. Before the War, German competition had completely ruined our native dye industry; it looks now as if it were about to do so again...
...Germans have no realization of an Allied victory in the late war," he said, "most of them honestly credit themselves with victory. They nurture now a spirit of unquenchable ambition, they are formulating plans for further conquest, of which the power will come from Russia, that vast expanse of chose and weakness, of fertility and strength, to the East...