Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Article X Prevents Wars of Conquest...
...Xerxes of Persia who caused a throne to be built for himself on the crest of the mountain overlooking Salamis so that he might enjoy the pageant of his conquest;--but it was a Grecian galley that carried the palm of victory back to the "wooden walls" of the Poloponnesus...
...more and more by the sentiment, but less and less by the finality of the occasion. He begins to sense the true significance of "Commencement," that graduation is only the beginning, not the end, and that the college world is a small one compared to those which still await conquest...
Plans have been completed for the first 1923 smoker to be held at the Union, next Monday, at 8 o'clock. Addresses will be made by V. Chapin '23 and B. de L. Nash '23, president and secretary-treasurer respectively of the class. Norma Talmadge in "The Isle of Conquest" will be the feature movie of the evening. The Mack Sennett Comedy "Salome" will also be offered. Music will be furnished by Bert Lowe's orchestra and refreshments and smokes will be served by the Union...
...with the menace of the story of the liberation of Italy all over again and determined to prevent it. Then followed the murder of Ferdinand, although he was a friend of the Jugo-Slave, and the beginning of the World War. Swiftly sketching the invasion of Serbia and its conquest, the pact of Corfu, July 20, 1917, between representatives of the Serbs and some exiled Croats, and the proclamation of a Jugo-Slav State; the collapse of Bulgaria and Austria in October, 1918, and the liberation of Serbia and Montenegro, also the detachment of Dalmatia, Croatia and the Slovene territories...