Word: conquests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gentlemen, conquest is not our purpose. We will not keep one single square inch of Chinese territory. Good night...
...found both Thomas Mann and Gustav Stresemann (then an unfamed Reichstag Deputy) ranged hot on the side of Kaiserdom and Conquest. Mann's War-time essays, Reflections of a Non-political Man, show that he shared the general will to spread kultur by the bayonet. Like Stresemann he changed his whole political philosophy after defeat. Both men have been flayed as opportunists. Last week in strongly Royalist Munich, where Republican Mann still lives, news of the Nobel Prize was frigidly received by the newspapers, given scant space, small praise...
When the idea that the banner of victory is the sum total of reasons for playing on the athletic field wavers in the minds of those concerned and the realization that there are further ends attainable, besides that of conquest, an advance in the methods of judging the whole basis of athletic participation is palpable to thinking...
...Revolution Day - twelfth anniversary of proletarian conquest. In the once Imperial Theatre the Soviet of Moscow had met to jubilate. On the platform stood a nervous peasant, Comrade Michael Son-of-Ivan Kalinin, the puppet President of Russia. He started uneasily when someone shouted. "Is Stalin sick or well?" He looked as though he would like to run when the whole hall began to clamor, "Tell us! Sick or well? We demand to know...
...have complied an unenviable record thus far this year, but the Elis rank a shade better on comparative scores. The convincing victory of the Blue Freshmen over their Nassau last Saturday makes them a decided favorite. Harvard has nary a victory to its credit, its closest semblance to a conquest being at 7 to 7 tie with Exeter, who by a turn of fate nosed out Yale...